Fourty-four years gone
he's leaving CBS
Won't sit in an office
sleeping behind a desk

He wanted substantive work
They'd rather he just sit and jerk

Back in Sixty-one
he tied himself to a tree
in a hurricane
and kept the cameras rollin'

March of oh-five
they were starting to cut him free
you could tell which way
the wind was blowin'

He wanted substantive work
They'd rather he just sit and jerk

Dan Rather
leaving CBS