Americans were shocked and stunned
‘Reason’ abandoned, injustice had won
On Sept. 8, 1974, when President Ford exited the stage
The Republican right was left in fistic rage
While the Democrat left was aghast, How could Ford do this
The scales of justice, now so sorely amiss
To pardon a President, guilty in every possible way
of undermining the law and his opponent just didn’t play
It cost Ford the next election, ‘cos Richard Nixon he’d pardoned
Voters’ adverse reaction over two years so hardened
They elected an unknown, a neophyte named Carter
next to whom the Ayatollah Khomeini looked smarter
Yet the country moved on, hindsight thanked Ford
~ That Biden pardon Trump ~ start petitioning the Lord
THE YEAR I WAS BORN
we were still fighting the
Vietnam war, Nixon was all
caught up in the drama
of Watergate then forced
to resign by summertime
handing his key to the
White House over to vice
president Ford, 38th
president of the United
States...
THE YEAR I WAS BORN
the chart topping songs
were Band On The Run,
Cat's In The Cradle and
You're Sixteen...
A Love story and The
Godfather Pt. 2 were the
two biggest movies on
the silver screen...
THE YEAR I WAS BORN
a gallon of gas was only 50
something cents and it was
only $25 to $35 dollars for
a month’s rent...
THE YEAR I WAS BORN
love was in the air despite the
war still going on in Vietnam,
we just started putting smiley
faces on everything, everywhere
in 1974 we joy, we had fun, we
had season in the sun...
THE YEAR I WAS BORN...
THE YEAR I WAS BORN!
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme,
With Charles Manson did roam.
Tried to assassinate President Ford,
A prison cell was her reward.
2013
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