Democracy

This song is on Dan Fogelberg's 4-CD Box Set "Portrait" released June 1997-I bought it then but I no longer have it
It is on Disc 3 "Rock and Roll" track 14
(Recorded 1993)
Dan Fogelberg - electric and acoustic guitars, percussion, vocals
Russ Kunkel - drums
Mike Porcaro - bass
Mike Hanna - piano
Produced by Dan Fogelberg
Recorded at Mountain Bird Studios, Colorado; Sunset Sound, L.A.

There's a rumor that the president's dead
He had a tumor growing deep in his head
But it hasn't had the slightest effect on how he doing his job

And there's these lessons that they teach you in school
That you'd better learn to play by the rules
Or at least make sure you never get caught
Now that's a dangerous thought

They've got McDonald's in the USSR
Fries and burgers in the Kremlin's backyard
Now they're learning what democracy means
Let's send them Calvin Klein jeans

Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means

Now there's people living out in the street
Going hungry with no shoes on their feet
While the government just twiddles its thumbs
And spends more money on guns

And they keep on planning nuclear war
Tell me who is it they're planning it for
If not the men that make their profits from hate
I swear it seems they can't wait

Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means

And the business boys they don't seem to care
About the blood that filled Tiananmen Square
They're so fearful that their checkbooks will bounce
If they should lose these accounts

And the wall that tore Berlin has come down
Can you hear it? Such a beautiful sound
Like it was written up above in the stars
Now we can sell them more cars

Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means

Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means
Is this what democracy means

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~