Something Just Broke

I was out in the yard

Taking down the bed sheets

When my neighbor yelled across

The President's been shot

I remember where I was

Just exactly where I was

In the yard out back

The President's been shot

I was getting me a shoeshine

Folding sheets

When I heard-

We were waiting for a carriage

Newsboys

Suddenly there's shouting in the streets

Lizzie's sheets

The President's been shot

I'll remember it forever-

And I thought-

Where I was, what I was doing

Something just broke

The President's been shot

My God!

I was up near the ridge

Plowing

We were working at the plant

I was halfway through correcting the exams

When my wife

It was Mike

She comes tearing 'cross the field

Mike, the foreman

In runs Billy

I mean, he was crying

He was crying

She was crying

I'll remember it forever

And I though

The President's been shot

You know what?

As a president he isn't worth a lot

I kept thinking

He's the kind that gets elected then forgot

Mr. Garfield

Mr. Lincoln

He's a hack

Bill McKinley

He's a giant

He's a joke

Still, something just broke

The President is rallying

The President is sinking

The President is dead

Something just broke

I was down at the Exchange

Something just made a little dent

I'd been shopping

Something just broke (I'd been sick)

(All I know it was a Friday)

Only for a moment

(I remember it exactly)

Something got bent

I'm taking the order