Sad, powerful and emotive anti war songs have their place but there is noting more derisive than an anti song to laugh in the faces of the mongers. The sad anti war song somehow is self defeating and self effacing.

Tom Lehrer captured the rag time tone of FOX news network coverage of war - 20 years ago:

So long Mom
I'm off to drop the bomb
so don't wait up for me
although you may swelter
way down in your shelter
you can see me
bum bum bum
on your TV
you'll see us attack frontally
reporting contrapuntally
with sickening finality
the cities we have lost

No need to miss
a single moment of the agonizing Holocaust...


Tom also had that classic line of "20 million tons of well done steak"

Capturing the cowardice and invisibility of todays bio war threats in humor is sure to be a hit...


ANTHRAX IS EASY

We like enemies large
not little ity bitish.
We'll try to be strong
we're just a mite scared
best way I know
is with a good song:


I paid a toll,
I got some change,
I went to town and bought some stuff and then I took the train
I ate a burger, a soda, and crap I shouldnt oughta ,
cuz now I got the anthrax and I'm wondrin where its from...

[CHORUS]
Anthrax is easy if you're startin to sneeze your gonna wonder if you'll ever grow old.
Anthrax is easy cuz its cured with Cipro and not contagious like the uncommon cold - like SARS - not contagious like the uncommon cold

I went to work,
and like a jerk,
I used the water fountain and got somthin on my shirt and in a letter,
I opened, I really should know better,
but Ed McMann just said I'd won and now I'm wondrin where its from .. .(chorus)

I came right home ,
I used the phone,
I called my doc in quarantine and asked him for some pills and in the bathroom, later,
I used some toilet paper now I've got a sore not there before I'm wondrin where its from.

( chorus)

I watched the news,
took off my shoes,
I took a shower for an hour then I went to bed but in my dreams,
I screamed , the duct tape burst its seams,
We're told we should beware the air you don't know where its been

(chorus)

In the morning,
I got changed,
I went to town and bought some stuff and then I took the train
I ate a pizza,
eclair, and some stuff that had grown hair,
but now I got the anthrax and I'm wondrin where its from...

Anthrax is easy if you're startin to sneeze your gonna wonder if you'll ever grow old. Anthrax is easy cuz its cured with Cipro and not contagious like the uncommon cold - like SARS - not contagious like the uncommon cold [-take it james- piano riff-],,I'm telling ya they make buggers...[-more piano-]... every wheeeeere. cough cough cough

Dhakman 2001 edit 2003