You Can't Always Get What You Want

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Princetonians for Trump, 2019

Tune sung with original lyrics by Mick Jagger in The Rolling Stones’ December 1968 Rock and Roll Circus at http://youtu.be/CySmd8M8oIM.

We saw him ride down the escalator

A comedian sent to our land

We knew he’d be president later

’Cause we’d all taken all we could stand

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes you might find

You get what you need

We watched him win the election

In his ranks all the blue-collar folks

He was practiced at the art of deception

The preps and the profs missed his jokes

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes well you just might find

You get what you need

We dared not hold a celebration

So we wandered along to The Street

Where we watched the returns with the rich kids

And man, did they all look pretty beat

We decided that we dared sing in ski masks

Our favorite color, MAGA red

We sang “Pissed-Off People” for some preppies

Yeah, and they just said two words, they said "drop dead"

We sang to them

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes you just might find

You get what you need

You get what you need, yeah, oh baby

We went down to his inauguration

To get our fair share of abuse

Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration

If we don't we're gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse"

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes you just might find

You just might find

You get what you need

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes you just might find

You just might find

You get what you need, oh yeah

Escalators in Trump Tower, Manhattan, on the lower of which Donald descended on June 16, 2015, to announce his candidacy for the presidency