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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?