Assassins movie - How I Saved Roosevelt lyrics
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[RADIO ANNOUNCER]<br>
That was President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, <br>
ladies and gentlemen, speaking to a crowd <br>
of supporters here in Miami's beautiful Bayfront Park. <br>
A group of notables are pressing in around <br>
the President-elect's car. <br>
There's Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, and-<br>
<br>
There's been a shot! I can't see-wait! <br>
Mr. Roosevelt is waving! He's all right! <br>
But Mayor Cermak has been hit! <br>
The police have somebody in custody. An immigrant. <br>
Giuseppe Zangara. <br>
We take you now to a group of eyewitnesses <br>
who will tell us what they saw!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #1]<br>
We're crowded up close,<br>
And I see this guy,<br>
He's squeezing by, <br>
I catch his eye, <br>
I say to him, "Where do you <br>
Think you are trying to go, boy?<br>
Whoa, boy!"<br>
I say, "Listen, you runt,<br>
You're not pulling that stunt,<br>
No gentleman pushes his way to the front."<br>
I say, "Move to the back!", which he does<br>
with a grunt-<br>
Which is how I saved Roosevelt!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #2]<br>
Then-<br>
Well, I'm in my seat, <br>
I get up to clap, <br>
I feel this tap, <br>
I turn-this sap, <br>
He says he can't see,<br>
I say, "Find a lap <br>
And go sit on it!"<br>
Which is how I saved-<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #3]<br>
Then-<br>
He started to swear<br>
And he climbed on a chair,<br>
He was aiming a gun-I was standing right there-<br>
So I pushed it as hard as I could in the air,<br>
Which is how I saved Roosevelt!<br>
<br>
[ALL THREE]<br>
Lucky I was there-<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #1]<br>
That's why he was standing back so far-!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #3]<br>
That's why when he aimed, He missed the car-!<br>
<br>
[ALL THREE]<br>
Just lucky I was there,<br>
Or we'd have been left<br>
Bereft of F.D.R.!<br>
<br>
[ZANGARA]<br>
You think that I scare?<br>
No scare.<br>
You think that I care?<br>
No care.<br>
I look at the world-<br>
No good. No fair. Nowhere.<br>
<br>
When I am boy, <br>
No school.<br>
I work in a ditch, <br>
No chance.<br>
The smart and the rich<br>
Ride by, <br>
Don't give no glance.<br>
<br>
Ever since then, because of them,<br>
I have the sickness in the stomach, <br>
Which is the way I make my idea<br>
To go out and kill Roosevelt.<br>
<br>
First I was figure I kill Hoover,<br>
I get even for the Stomach. <br>
Only Hoover up in Washington.<br>
Is wintertime in washington, <br>
Too cold for the stomach in Washington-<br>
I go down to Miami Kill Roosevelt.<br>
<br>
No laugh!<br>
No funny!<br>
Men with the money,<br>
they control everything.<br>
<br>
Roosevelt, Hoover-<br>
No make no difference.<br>
<br>
You think I care who I kill?<br>
I no care who I kill, <br>
Long as it's King!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #4 (MAN)]<br>
The crowd's breaking up<br>
And I hear these shots,<br>
And I mean lots-<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #5 (HIS WIFE)]<br>
I thought I'd plotz-<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
I spotted hi-<br>
<br>
[WIFE]<br>
My stomach was tied in knots-<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
So I barrelled-<br>
<br>
[WIFE]<br>
Harold-!<br>
No, happened was this:<br>
He was blowong a kiss-<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
She means Roosevelt-<br>
<br>
[WIFE]<br>
I was saying to Harold, "This weather is bliss!"<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
When you think that we might have missed seeing<br>
Him miss-!<br>
<br>
[BOTH]<br>
Lucky we were there!<br>
<br>
[WIFE]<br>
It was a historical event-!<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
Worth every penny that we spent!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDERS]<br>
Just lucky we were there!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #1]<br>
To think, if I let him get up closer-!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #3]<br>
I saw right awat he was insane_<br>
Oh, this is my husband, we're from Maine-<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #2]<br>
He told me to sit, but I said, "No, Sir!"<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #4]<br>
This makes our vacation a real success!<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #5]<br>
Are you with the press?<br>
<br>
[PHOTOGRAPHER]<br>
Yes.<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #5]<br>
Oh God, I'm a mess...<br>
<br>
[BYSTANDER #1]<br>
Some left wing foreigner, that's my guess-<br>
<br>
[ZANGARA]<br>
No left!<br>
You think I am left?<br>
No left, no right,<br>
No anything!<br>
Only American!<br>
<br>
Zangara have nothing, <br>
No luck, no girl,<br>
Zangara no smart, no school,<br>
But Zangara no foreign tool,<br>
Zangara American!<br>
American nothing!<br>
<br>
And why there no photographers?<br>
For Zangara no photographers!<br>
Only capitalists get photographers!<br>
<br>
No<br>
[BYSTANDERS]<br>
Right!<br>
Lucky<br>
No fair<br>
I was there!<br>
Nowhere!<br>
So what?<br>
I'm on the front page-<br>
Is that bizarre?<br>
No sorry!<br>
And all of those pictures,<br>
Like a star!<br>
And soon no <br>
Just lucky I was there!<br>
Zangara!<br>
We might have been left<br>
Who care?<br>
Bereft of F.<br>
Pull switch! <br>
No care, <br>
D.<br>
No more,<br>
No- <br>
R.<br>
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