Subject: ADD: Jabaliya (Ron Bankley)
From:
olddude
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 05:42 PM
Ron wrote this last night
it is awesome. Great job Ron!!
Ron Bankley - Jabaliya
JABILIYA
(Ron Bankley)
I caught you looking, gazing across the Strip
From the safety of viewpoints within that comfortable grip
It's hard to grasp fast shadows from the corner of your eye
They can't shout down the silence, but at least they try
There's a ringing in my ears that just won't subside
I'm losing track of the years and how many more have died
Here comes the cavalry, there goes the neighbourhood
Just a stone's throw from Calvary, where someone else got nailed real good
Still gambling at the foot of the Cross, the Crescent and the Star,
All the chosen henchmen tell us how lucky we really are....
There'll be no jambalaya in Jabaliya tonight
Not much cause to celebrate, we just wait out the fight
There's a shortage of ingredients, expedience shot out the lights
So there'll be no jambalaya in Jabaliya tonite
Out in the badlands we have little left to bet
Robber barons come to collect some neglected debt
We aimed arrows at their iron horse that drove us from our land
To confine us to the bitterness of the heavy hand
Willy Pete came calling again, blowing lots of smoke
Every time he's let out, things get burnt and broke
While the dealer shows no mercy, he wears a poker face
The stakes just got a lot higher as he palms another ace
Still gambling at the foot of the Cross, the Crescent and the Star
Pinned on the chest of frontier justice that thrust us behind bars
The slick-tongue ambassador smiles just like a stiletto
We still fail to get the joke down here in the ghetto
There'll be no jambalaya in Jabilya tonite
No happy songs and dances, chances are we might
End up on the wrong end of some retaliatory strike
So there'll be no jambalaya in Jabaliya tonight
No jambalaya in Jabaliya tonight
I caught you looking, gazing across the Strip
Ron Bankley
Jan 07-09/2009
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