AIlex Supergenius - Farewell from Richard Nixon Lyrics

There are many fine careers
This country needs good farmers
Good businessmen
Good plumbers

I remember my old man
He was a streetcar motorman
Then he was a farmer
Not a good farmer

And then he had a lemon ranch
It was the poorest lemon ranch
In California
I can assure you.

After working in sweat
And toil on it
He sold it before they
Found oil on it

And then he was
A grocer man
But he was
A great man

Because he did his job
And every job counts
He did his job
And every job counts
Up to the hilt

Nobody will ever bother
To write a book about my mother
Well, I guess all of you
Would say this about your mother

But my mother was a saint
My mother was a saint
Probably no books about her
But she was a saint

When I think of her two boys
Dying of TB
Her two sweet boys dying
Something no mother should see

Yes, she will have no books written about her.
Even though she was a saint
Probably no books written about her
But my mother was a saint

I remember something
Theodore Roosevelt did write
When his first wife died in his twenties
The light gone out of his life

But he went on and became President
Tempestuous and strong,
Always in the arena
Sometimes right, sometimes wrong

But he was a man

And as I leave, that's an example
I think all of us should pay heed
We think sometimes when things happen
That drive us to concede

Things that push you back
That don't go the right way
When someone we love dies
Losing on Election Day

We think that all is ended...
But that is Not true
Because the greatness comes
Not when things go good for you

But the greatness comes
When you're really tested
When you take some knocks
Bloodied but not bested

Some disappointments
When sadness comes
When you've bottomed out
Down in the mud

Because only if you have been way down
In the valley deep
Can you ever know how magnificent it is
To be on the highest peak

Remember, never get discouraged
Always give your best
Never be petty
And this I can attest

Others may hate you
But those who hate you don't win
They cannot defeat you
Unless you hate them

And then, it's yourself
Whom you will destroy
Always give your best
God bless America
Goodbye