Dizzy Gillespie for President

Yeah

Yeah

I vote

And I know that he won't hurt me

And I know that he won't hurt me

No, No, No

In 1964, Dizzy Gillespie ran for President of the United States

On a platform of Vietnam withdrawal

Desegregation and a National Lottery

Ramona Crowell was Dizzy's vice-presidential running mate

Miles Davis Director of the CIA

Louis Armstrong Minister of Agriculture

Thelonious Monk was to be Roving Ambassador

And other cabinet members included

Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee

Woody Herman and Count Basie

According to Dizzy, drummer Max Roach wanted to Minister of War

But was overruled - because, said the candidate

We're not going to have any.

With a black pen he began to make his mark on politics

He scratched a blues to stop the war

And sweetly improvised the truth

Forming horn parts in his mind

Perfect meter, perfect time

Forming government as difficult as printing those ideas

Onto magnetic tape

Onto magnetic tape

Making music is a struggle

Change is hard to contemplate

Yes, you make my heart sing

A saviour not a sufferer

I have more memories than days left to remember them

Just once in a lifetime

I need a cause that I can believe in

I vote Dizzy for my president

And his hall of fame as senators

Yeah, yeah

I know he'll protect our interests

In a time of great uncertainty

Forming horn parts in his mind

Perfect meter, perfect time

Forming government as difficult as printing those ideas

Onto magnetic tape

Onto magnetic tape

Making music is a struggle

Change is hard to contemplate

Yes, you make my heart sing

A saviour not a sufferer

I have more memories than days left to remember them

Just once in a lifetime

I need a cause that I can believe in

I vote Dizzy for my president

And his hall of fame as senators

Yeah, yeah

I know he'll protect our interests

In a time of great uncertainty

I vote Dizzy for my president

And his hall of fame as senators

Yeah, yeah

I know he'll protect our interests

In a time of great uncertainty

I vote Dizzy for my president

I vote Dizzy for my president

I vote Dizzy for my president

I vote Dizzy for my president

Yeah

I vote Dizzy for my

I vote Dizzy for my

Yeah

I vote Dizzy for my

Yeah

I vote Dizzy for my

I vote Dizzy for my president

And his hall of fame as senators

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I know he'll protect our interests

In a time of great uncertainty

I vote

I vote Dizzy for my

I vote Dizzy for my president

I vote

Yeah, yeah

I vote

I vote Dizzy for my

I vote Dizzy for my president

And his hall of fame as senators

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah