This protest song was obsolete the week it was composed (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 to line up chords):

By Charlie Ipcar © 1991
Tune: The Ballad of Springhill by Peggy Seeger

THE PERSIAN GULF TRAGEDY


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In the Persian Gulf, you don't sleep easy,
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Of-ten the earth will tremble and coil;
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When the skies are rest less, people die –
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Bone and blood is the price of oil,
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Bone and blood is the price of oil.

Hear the sirens wail, o'er a sleeping city,
See the tracers light the midnight skies;
A dance of death, flashed 'round the world –
Bone and blood is the price of lies,
Bone and blood is the price of lies.

See soldiers file out, across the desert,
Encased in armor, hear their engines whine;
For God and Country, loved ones dear,
But bone and blood is the bottom line,
Bone and blood is the bottom line.

See the generals in their bomb-proof bunkers,
Watching the war on the video display;
Machines rain death on distant lands
Bone and blood is the price today,
Bone and blood is the price today.

See the oil plume spread from the pumping station,
A black ooze washes against the shore;
Birds and fish die by the millions
Bone and blood is the final score,
Bone and blood is the final score.

See the Dove of Peace fly above the marchers,
Hear voices rise; best heed their plea:
"Cease fire now! Send soldiers home!
Bone and blood is Death's victory,
Bone and blood is Death's victory!"

Charley Noble