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Thread #79667 Message #1449284
Posted By: BrĂan
01-Apr-05 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: Song Challenge: Bush
Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bush
Well, I'll probably catch heat from this but here goes:
A BILLION BARRELS OF PERSIAN OIL
Melody: BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES
By Manhattan on the ocean It was on a fair and pleasant autumn morn Came dreadful death and carnage Amongst the towers that line Columbia's shores I heard a murmur rising Far above the cries of grief did boil Conversing with George the Younger Concerning a billion barrels of Persian oil
When next we saw the President It was not before the UN on his knee He asked consent of Congress And they granted it most cowardly It was then he took his army Over ocean, desert, mountain and sea and soil Saying," We never will return again Without a billion barrels of Persian oil."
He raised one hundred thousand men And UN troops for to bear his train He was so well provided for He could overlook the world's disdain And when we got to Baghdad The insurgence in every street did roil And Iraqi oil fields burning He forgot about a billion barrels of Persian oil
Adieu, mother forever A foreign desert for my dying bed Shall the eleventh day of September Be paid in the blood of Iraqi dead And when this term is over Will our consciences recoil? Was the all the death and carnage worth A billion barrels of Persian oil?