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Introducción:
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Dear Missis Roosevelt, don't hang your head and cry.
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His mortal clay is laid away, but his good work fills the sky
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this world was lucky to see him born
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He's born in a money family on that Hudson's rocky shore,
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outrun every kid a-growin' up 'round Hyde Park just for fun,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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He went away to grade school and wrote back to his folks,
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he drew such funny pictures and always pulling a joke,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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He went on up towards Harvard, he read his books of law,
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he loved his trees and horses, loved everything he saw,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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He got struck down by fever and it settled in his leg,
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he loved the folks that wished him well as everybody did,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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"You money changin' racket boys have sure 'nuff got to fall!"
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This world was lucky to see him born.
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In Senate walls and Congress halls he used his gift of tongue,
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to get you thieves and liars told and put you on the run,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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I voted for him for lots o' jobs, I'd vote his name again,
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he tried to find an honest job for every idle man,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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He helped to build my union hall, he learned me how to talk,
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I could see he was a cripple but he learned my soul to walk,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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You Nazis and you fascists tried to boss this world by hate,
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he fought my war the union way and the hate gang all got beat,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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I sent him 'cross that ocean to Yalta and to Tehran,
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he didn't like Churchill very much and told him man to man,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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He said he didn't like De Gaulle, nor no Chiang Kai Shek,
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shook hands with Joseph Stalin, says: "There's a man I like!"
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This world was lucky to see him born.
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I was torpedoed on my merchant ship the day he took command,
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he was hated by my captain, but loved by all ships hands,
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this world was lucky to see him born.
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I was a Gl in my army camp that day he passed away,
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“This world was lucky to see him born".
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I guess this world was lucky just to see him born,
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I know this world was lucky just to see him born,
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this world was lucky to see him born.