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We Can Have the Olympics Over at Our House


Capo 2nd fret G Am Everybody's gonna boycott; not a country's gonna come, D C Em G If they have the games at all, they're gonna be going some. C E A For the Russians have decided that they do not like L.A. A7 D D7 Well, I could have told them that I say it fifty times a day.

But there is no need to panic and there is no need to cry.
We'll be running, jumping, tumbling children by and by.
Did you think a little boycott would put good times in the soup?
Did you feel that hope was gone and could you feel the party poop?


G We can have the Olympics over at our house! D If we use our heads it wouldn't be so hard. D7 G G/F# Em Put the athletes on a bus and bring 'em over to us. A D D/C D/B D/A We'll fire a gun and run 'em around the yard. G We can have the Olympics over at our house! C There'll be room for all if no one's gonna be there. G G/F# E7 And the fella with the torch bring it over to the porch, A7 D7 G And we'll hang it up and show the world we care!

There's a basket in the driveway where the kids have always played,
A treat for acrobats that even provides some shade.
If the whole world's gonna boycott, if the whole world stays at home,
You can come on over to our house; we'll have a good time on our own.

We can have the Olympics over at our house!
If we use our heads, I know we'll have a ball.
We have a pool above the ground - we think it's the nicest one around.
If we shorten the races we can have 'em all.
Come on and have the Olympics over at our house!
We can break and sweat and get a medal or two.
Grandma says she'll hold the clock while they run around the block -
That's about the limit of what grandma can do!

If we have the Olympics over at our house,
We can have the whole caboodle on TV.
For a neighbour down the street has a video that's a treat.
If we mention his name he'll lend the thing to me.
Come on and have the Olympics over at our house!
We'll release a couple of pigeons and fire a gun.
We could run a race or two, then we'll have some barbecue.
Don't you know we're gonna have a lot of fun!


C G G/F# E7 And as an honorary starter, we've invited Jimmy Carter - A7 D7 G C G Don't you know we're gonna have a lot of fun!

(Words and music by Tom Paxton, 1985)


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