Lyr Add: Battle for a New Oil Lease

Subject: Lyr Add: Battle of New Oil Lease
From: voyager
Date: 05 Mar 26 - 01:49 PM

just a snippet here from a 1970s lyric I wrote. The lyrics are a bit dusty and the geo-politico roulette wheel has changed.   Even so,
the basic sentiment persists

Battle of New Oil-Lease (to the tune of 8th of January).

Chorus

Iran through the cameras and Iran through the papaers
Iran through the White House where the oil money flows
Iran so bad our army couldn't touch them
They grabbed our radar bases in the Gulf of Texaco.

Verse

Early in the winter, year of '79
Some students in Iran well they put it on the line
In a fight for independence they took our embassy
Shouting out the slogans of Ayatollah Khomeni

With Americans as hostages they bargained for the Shah
A rich exiled dictator who had broke their Muslim Law
They said he owed them money, was a traitor and a beast
And in the name of freedom they upset the Middle East

As we move into the '80s, there's still no end in sight
While Muslims beat themselves with chains they'rs spoiling for a fight
Ayatollah wants it his way but Carter disagrees
And people everywhere are talking WWIII.

Note - it wouldn't be hard to tweak the lyrics to fit the sh*t storm
we have today.

'Ain't going to study war n more'
voyager