Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Was a vice-president
Who served under Lyndon Johnson and
Was mayor of Minneapolis
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He was born in South Dakota
Then he moved to Minnesota
Where he taught at the U and Macalester too
But he never finished his Ph.D.
And he tried to john the army
But instead served in an administrative capacity
And finally in 1943

He ran for mayor of Minneapolis
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But he lost and ran again
And won in 1945
On a campaign of anti-communism
He fought real hard to end racism
Because apparently back then Minneapolis was
The U.S. capital of anti-semitism
(we didn't like Jews)
(but now we do)
Thank you Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.
You didn't stop at Minneapolis
No, you went on the to U.S. Congress
Where they called you the Happy Warrior
Throughout your congressional tenure
Because you smiled and you laughed
As you helped pass the Civil Rights Act
You gave us food stamps, and the Peace Corps
What more could we ask for?

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Was a vice-president
Who served under Lyndon Johnson and
Was mayor of Minneapolis
Minneapolis
Minneapolis
polis
polis
polis
polis
polis

And finally he was elected
Into the executive
Branch of the U.S. government
He because the vice-president
Of the United States of America

The end
The end
Or is it the end?

Hey Hugh we believed in you!
(Dump the hump, dump the hump!)
But my friends what was I supposed to do?
(Dump the hump, dump the hump!)
Hey Hugh we believed in you!
(Dump the hump, dump the hump!)
But my friends what was I supposed to do?
(Dump the hump, dump the hump!)

Lyndon had me under his thumb
Tantamount to holding a gun
Up against my presidential chances

Don't you want me to help you?
(YES!)
Well I'm trying to do my best
(We believed in you!)

You were supposed to fight
For our civil rights
Instead you defend putting guns
Into the hands of our nation's mothers' sons
Hey Hugh we believed in you!
(Dump the hump, dump the hump!)
But my friends what was I supposed to do?
Supposed to do

Hey look there's Hugh!
(Yeah he's on TV)
I wonder what he's gonna do?

Hello friends I'm here to tell you
I don't believe in this god damn war anymore
And well friends I'd like to share with you that
I still believe what we used to be fightin' for

And even though he was defeated
In the presidential election of 1968
He returned to the senate
Kept on keeping on
Kept on being great

And when he died in Minnesota
Thousands came to see him as he lay in state
Remembering him for his actions
Progressive ideas and the wise things he'd say
The things he'd say

"It was once said that the moral test of government
was how that government treated those in the dawn of life
the children
those in the twilight
the elderly
and those in the shadows
the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."

Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Was a vice-president
Who served under Lyndon Johnson and
Was mayor of Minneapolis