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Subject: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Mrrzy Date: 03 Oct 01 - 09:37 AM to the tune of DayO - has anybody heard this one yet? It may be in poor taste, it may not be funny, but it's music and the lyrics ought to be in the Trad. I've only heard about it, not heard IT yet... it has, apparently, verses, not just this tag line. |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Oct 01 - 02:39 PM I thought you were gonna say "to the tune of Mr. Tambourine Man"... What a relief. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 01 - 02:49 PM Heck, and here was me hoping that Tambourine Man was the tune... |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HEY, MR. TALIBAN, GIVE US UP BIN LADEN From: ScottyG Date: 03 Oct 01 - 03:35 PM Hi, Mrrzy:
I've got the midi file, but don't know how to post it. If it's the one I have, the words are: |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: pavane Date: 03 Oct 01 - 03:40 PM Try searching for Banana Boat song? |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Alice Date: 03 Oct 01 - 03:50 PM I saw this on Saturday Night Live, the sketch parody of Jessie Jackson, dialing *69 and getting the Taliban... it was great. Mayor Giuliani and members of the fire department introduced the show. I'll never think of the banana boat song in the same way again. Alice |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: JedMarum Date: 03 Oct 01 - 04:08 PM I'm almost ashamed to adit this, but here's a Blue Clicky thing to the song in question! |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: JedMarum Date: 03 Oct 01 - 04:09 PM ooops, that is admit! |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: MMario Date: 03 Oct 01 - 04:28 PM okay Jed, who does the falling bomb? |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: mousethief Date: 03 Oct 01 - 05:36 PM The tune I imagined was "Please Mr. Custer I don't want to go" by Larry Verne. (Well, really by Darian, DeLory, and Van Winkle, but sung by Larry, anyway.) I'm sure you could also do something clever with "Afghanistani" to the tune of "Guantanamera"... Alex |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 03 Oct 01 - 07:30 PM ON THE SUBJECT OF AFGANISTAN WAR SONGS
Another song in the DT probably from the Crimean War (1853-56) with the same folks ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR Click here
And its ribald parody probably from the Russo-Turkish Wars The Ballade of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar Click here |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Oct 01 - 07:38 PM Neither of your links work, Gargoyle. Murray Links fixed -Joe O- |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Peter Kasin Date: 04 Oct 01 - 06:06 AM Can you give it another go, Gargoyle? I'm also curious about those songs. |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST,Mrr-sans-cookie Date: 04 Oct 01 - 09:17 AM I know Abdul - Abdul was a friend of mine. And believe, me, Osama, you're no Abdul. (sorry!) Actually, that one happens somewhere over in one of the other -istans, doesn't it, since it has the Abdul (a moslem) and Ivan Skavinski Skavar, the guy from Moscow? |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: mousethief Date: 04 Oct 01 - 04:14 PM They work for me -- maybe an elf has fixed the html. Alex |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST Date: 04 Oct 01 - 06:32 PM You must see this. |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST,Melani Date: 05 Oct 01 - 02:00 PM If the links don't work, just go to the DT under A--they're both there. As for the Banana Boat Song, I like ScottyG's version best. |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Oct 01 - 03:57 PM Oh c'mon now folks.........I admit it............So far my high score is 51500............But I'm still practicing.........Bound to improve........ Yeah, it may be tasteless or whatever, but it's fun!!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Celtic Soul Date: 05 Oct 01 - 09:48 PM Thanks Jed! I was really wondering what the rest of this parody would be like. I don't know whether to laugh my ass off, say "Oh my GAWD!" or both. :D |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: WyoWoman Date: 06 Oct 01 - 06:52 PM Actually, a friend of mine sent me the perfect solution to the Bin Laden conundrum. If we can bring him to justice, we can darned well bring him to some poetic justice. To wit: Send in our Special Forces, Seals and whoever else it takes to find Mr. bin Laden. Bring him back to the U.S. and do an emergency sex change operation on him. Then once he's healed up pretty well, send him back to Afghanistan to live under Taliban rule. If he's a problem child in custody, make sure he's dressed in a short skirt, makeup and a lot of jewelry when he goes back. (That was my addendum.) Fiendishly simple. ww |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Lepus Rex Date: 06 Oct 01 - 07:51 PM Oh, that 'bin Laden's Liquors' game is hilarious, isn't it? Equating an international terrorist with a Mideastern/South Asian-American shopkeeper is JUST what we need. :P ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Oct 01 - 08:07 PM Aw hell Leeps, I know that and you're right, but what the hell......It's tasteless and bigoted and all that shit, but I'm havin' a pretty good time at it........102,500 so far....and my mouse is kinda' screwed up! There is already a ton of that bullshit floating around the net and it doesn't help relations any but it's a nice alternative as a tension reliever to smashing termites on the screen and the like. Now go out and get some new pictures of yourself to post. Or go over and tell Ozzie you're really a guy who had a sex change but cross dresses after the operation because you realized that as a girl some ass like him might hit on you. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Oct 01 - 08:18 PM Okay Lepus, no need to post to Ozzie.....I did it for you. You can thank me later.......How about a date? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Lepus Rex Date: 06 Oct 01 - 08:29 PM Heh, Spaw. You know, I guess that game isn't all that bad, racism aside... I guess... I'm just jealous that no one hates ME enough to take my LOVELY out-of-date Mudcat photo and make a game where *I* get shot at. :( But I'm working on that. ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Oct 01 - 08:35 PM Hey .... GO FOR IT!!! Hmmm......Maybe you could pop up behind a music store counter holding various instruments and the score is based on blowing away different ones. Maybe a guitar is worth 500, a banjo 1000, a Dobro 1500, a bodhran 3000, and an accordion 5000. Helluvan' idea Lepus..... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Lepus Rex Date: 06 Oct 01 - 08:40 PM Oh, I'm not working on the GAME... I'm working on alienating so many people who know how to make violent video games, that they make one about me. It's bound to happen, sooner or later...:) ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Oct 01 - 09:11 PM Lepus, if I knew anyone who made those games, I'd be happy to tell them that you're a complete scumbag! If you know of some, send me their addy's and I'll forward a letter of reference on your behalf! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST,Sonja Date: 08 Oct 01 - 08:57 PM Here's the one from the link above: Talibanjo Gee-Haw'd Set to the tune of The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
Day - Glo Day - Glo
Load six and seven and eight and launch, (Daylight come an' you got no home)
Day - Glo Day - Glo
A beautiful day in south Manhattan ( daylight come and I see my home)
Bags they check but they check with caution (daylight come and we wanna go home)
Day - Glo Day - Glo
Daylight come as we build a new home
© 2001 Dustin K. Dykes
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: KingBrilliant Date: 09 Oct 01 - 05:01 AM Sorry, but I think this stuff is sick. Maybe I'm missing the point - but it just seems like de-sensitizing mechanisms to me. Kris |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST,Dustin K. Dykes (Gee Haw'd) Date: 09 Oct 01 - 01:06 PM Just received the link to the Mudcat thread and, as the parody author of Talibanjo Gee-Haw'd (http://www.fretmeister.com), decided to give everyone a background on the song. I happened to be watching the tube when the events of September 11th began. At the time I was enjoying my fourth month of vacation/unemployment. This condition, though, permitted me to watch CNN 24/7 – not a healthy situation. I am a former New Yorker and had a close friend working in One World Trade Center – he survived. Anyway, I desperately needed a distraction. I am normally a very cheerful person and yet when I undertook this project I hadn't laughed in days. Things had to change. Unlike most posters on this board, I have little-to-no musical talent – you could ask Jed, but he's to nice a guy to agree ;-) I do enjoy writing silly songs, though. I'm not necessarily good at it, but I do enjoy it. I've never before shared one of them with the public, but desperate times call for desperate measures. People everywhere were stepping forward and contributing in any way they could. However pathetic it may sound, this is the best I could do. In response to KingBrilliant, my intent was desensitization in the way that any form of entertainment dulls the ache of everyday life. Music, humor, fantasy…we all have a need for escapism. My need was at its greatest level since serving in the Gulf War. This time, though, I had to create my own distraction. I would like to thank Jed Marum and Eammon's Kitchen for indulging me and breathing life into this creation. As I mentioned, I have a dearth of musical talent of my own. Finally, this song served its intended purpose – it cheered me up. If it helped others than I am overjoyed. If it offended more, I'm sorry it wasn't meant to. My greatest fear wasn't rejection, though, it was putting my name to a creation that could threaten the safety of my family. I honestly thought about posting it anonymously, but how could I after calling Bin Laden and his supporters cowards? While I do fear that this might place my family in some form of jeopardy – remember Salman Rushdie – I fear more for those Americans of Middle Eastern decent who are now subject to the intensified ignorance of their fellow citizens. My greatest sense of loss, though, is for the civil liberties that we will inevitably lose in the name of public safety. Political Note: If honest citizens hadn't been disarmed in the first place, the hijackings would have never been successful. The purpose of this is, of course, to completely strip citizens of the power to defend themselves so that they must rely upon the government for protection thus enlarging the role the government plays and increasing its power. I fly twice a week and the security is ridiculous. The "bad guys" will always take risks while honest folks will continue to die for their obedience. It may sound trivial, but now the FAA has announced that only one carry on will be allowed. I have a laptop for business and a Taylor Baby for enjoyment. I won't check either. So now I'll have to forgo the pleasure of my instrument. And will I be any safer? No! But the bureaucrats who issue such edicts won't be inconvenienced as they don't fly commercial and aren't subject to their own rules. If you really want to be forces of change may I recommend joining the Libertarian Party (http://www.lp.org). As they stated in a recent announcement; "If you want to stop terrorists, stop arming them." It is nearly always American weapons being used to kill American troops. Sorry about the length of the post. Just felt a need to clarify – and rant a bit :-) Cheers, Dustin |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: KingBrilliant Date: 09 Oct 01 - 01:30 PM Dustin - I wasn't just aiming my comment at your lyrics - it was the whole songs & games thing. And it is a valid point about desensitizing to take away the pain. The context in which a thread text is written & that in which its read can be really different can't they? I can see where you were coming from now - its just my sense of humour failing! Another time I'd have probably read it differently. Sorry to be grumpy... Kris |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Genie Date: 09 Oct 01 - 01:31 PM Dustin, Thanks for the background. I do hope you and your family stay safe. As for the idea of private citizens being allowed to carry firearms on planes--a proposal I heard being applauded on a talk show recently--, the idea terrifies me. If the passengers on those planes that hit the Pentagon and the towers had surmised the hijackers' intent, I can't imagine they would have allowed the cockpit to be taken over, even though the hijackers had knives. --- They were going to die, anyway! Unfortunately, they did not know it! Armed guards on planes, yes. Passengers with concealed weapons, heavens, no! For one thing, under current law, those hijackers probably could have obtained concealed carry permits in some states! Moreover, people are on edge right now and it would be too easy for armed passengers to shoot first and ask questions later. If you are, as I am, worried about the safety of middle-eastern-looking people, don't you imagine that the so-called "vigilantes" out there ("terrorists" would be more apt) would be a greater threat to them if they (the vigilantes) were armed? Back to your song, actually, I appreciated it as parody. I had some fear (before the missile strikes) that we might end up backing the Taliban to get Bin Laden, just as we backed them and Bin Laden to fight the Soviets. Genie |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST,Nobody Special Date: 12 Jan 07 - 02:17 PM I love that song... it's great. I know it will make many that I know laugh, my family and friends are in the service and they all look forward to things to laugh about so I have that song on my myspace site now (copywritten and all) Thank you very much Dustin! you did a great job!! I hope you are getting alot of money for it because you deserve it! |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST Date: 12 Jan 07 - 03:05 PM Thanks folks, Someone on another forum I subscribe to asked why everybody hates America - I was just going to reply - but I'll just point them to this thread. You'd have though after getting the shit kicked out of you in Viet Nam, you'd have learned your lesson. I guess it's a case of old rednecks never dying, they just retire to the same asylum. Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Gulliver Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:46 PM I wouldn't be quite so harsh, Jim, but this thread (to a European) sure looks weird... |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Folkiedave Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:57 PM It is weird. I suspect the reason is that some Americans believe that had it not been for Nixon NOT sending enough troops and enough armaments they would have won in Vietnam. Clearly Bush in that school of thought. Dave |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 12 Jan 07 - 05:42 PM Ignorance of the Pushtun people and the Taliban faction is appalling. There are some 40 million Pushtun, mostly Sunni Muslims, whose conservative ways are different from ours- in many ways 'biblical' and far removed from western democracy, which could take a couple or more generations to become meaningful to them. Their central homeland is mostly Pakistan and parts of Afganistan, especially that part of 'Pakistan' which cannot be controlled by the Pakistan government. The Taliban are the young, 'students,' who are becoming increasingly militant. Those chased out of Afganistan are returning and starting to put up a good fight. The 'insurgency' there could last a long time- until the U. S. realizes that the Taliban is not just a few militants and winning is impossible. |
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Subject: RE: Hey, Mr. Taliban, give us up Bin Laden From: GUEST Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:15 AM Weird aint the word, The Yanks started an illegal war against one of their former employees, they got the support of a Brit poodle, inevitably they managed to crush the immediate opposition, largely by the indescriminate slaughter of military and non military (not forgetting the use of chemical weapons), now they have fallen back on the old tactic of appointing a puppet regime - just as corrupt as the one they threw out. Result - instant civil war. And the reaction - a little victory dance to celebrate a lynching that took place a couple of weeks ago. Come into the real world folks - unless you want to lose your oil (the object of the whole exercise) you are going to be there for a long - long time and all the concentration camps and torture techniques in the world are not going to change that. Application forms to re-join the human race may be obtained from........ Jim Carroll |
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