43 Presidents lived here
With the ghost of Abraham Lincoln
And all the Presidents' men
President Richard Nixon
Installed a bowling alley
President Bill Clinton
Installed Monica Lewinsky
President Woodrow Wilson
Kept 83 sheep on the lawn
President John F. Kennedy
Kept his secrets
President Herbert Hoover
Housed two alligators
President Warren Harding
Hosted poker parties
President Reagan
Stored a jar of jellybeans
President Johnson
Called his genitals ‘Jumbo'
President Roosevelt's
Family walked on stilts
President Quincy
Skinny-dipped in the Potomac
President Carter
Saw a UFO
President Taft
Got stuck in the White House bath
In the President's House there are:
Panic buttons
Bullet proof windows
A nuclear bunker
35 bathrooms
412 doors
147 windows
28 fireplaces
8 staircases
3 lifts
A florist
A tennis court
A cinema
A putting green
Which makes me think
In a house that vast
You could easily get lost
You wouldn't feel safe
If you looked at the fate
Of Presidents to date
Abraham Lincoln. William McKinley
James A. Garfield. John F. Kennedy
Killed in office, every one
Attempted assassinations?
The shiver-list runs on:
William Taft. Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt. Richard Nixon
Herbert Hoover. Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt Ronald Reagan
Ford, Bush, Carter, Obama, Clinton
So what's this piece of real estate summed up?
The White House is the finest gaol in the world*
The place where every global problem's hurled.
*‘The White House is the finest prison in the world'.
Harry S Truman
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