Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior

Subject: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:26 AM

On Saturday at the San Francisco Festival of the Sea I heard at least three or four versions of "Boney Was a Warrior," and there's a current thread about the song. So this popped into my head, and rather than try to come up with fifteen or twenty verses on my own, I thought I'd troll a couple and see what bites. Feel free to process, twist, mangle, steal, whatever.


BUSHIE WAS A WARRIOR

Bushie was a warrior
Way, hey, yah!
An anti-terror worrier
George Dub-yah!

He went to Yale for drink-eye-in'
He wasn't much for think-eye-in'

Well Bushie was his Daddy's boy
The State of Texas was his toy

His Daddy fought the Roosh-eye-ans
But George pissed off the Proosh-eye-ans

The hurricane was threatenin'
But Bushie was vacationin'

Well New Orleans was in a fix
So Bushie played some guitar licks

And so on...
Obviously I've left out some stuff...like the election, and Iraq, and Cheney, and Halliburton, and the Saudis, and Condoleeza Rice, and Mission Accomplished, and...

Have fun!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:31 AM

PS, This thread has buckets of verses to inspire you.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 08:05 AM

Oh, Mark, why didn't we have this BEFORE our gig at the Strafford County Democratic Picnic last Sunday?!?

Sounds like material for next year, though . . .

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:36 AM

Hey, I love it. More please.

You might be interested in the following DT thread:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=79667#1454579

It contains a bunch of anti-Bush songs by DT'ers, plus some outside goodies from Yikes McGee, Peggy Seeger and so on.

It also has links to earlier anti-Bush song threads.

The anti-Bush song movement is alive and well. If you scroogle that term, you'll find quite a variety out there on the web.

Long may it wave.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 09:20 AM

You heard the man (or woman): more, please!

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: GUEST,Songster Bob
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 05:01 PM

My suggestion is to change it to "Georgie was a warrior, etc." It's more demeaning to call him by a diminutive (just don't change it further to 'Geordie,' because you'll have a whole lot of ticked-off Brits gunning for you).


Bob

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: Micca
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 06:33 AM

Bushie was a warrior
Way, hey, yah!
An anti-terror worrier
George Dub-yah!

Bushies dads a clever guy
Way, hey, yah!
got george off a DUI
George Dub-yah!

Bushie he should get the sack
Way, hey, yah!
for sending our boys to I-Rack
George Dub-yah!

Bushies life had turned bad
Way, hey, yah!
future hanging by a chad
George Dub-yah!

Bushie then he used his Neb*
Way, hey, yah!
made that call to brother Jeb
George Dub-yah!

Bushies life it then begun
Way, hey, yah!
gets to ride in Air Force One
George Dub-yah!

Bushie thinks he is the Beans
Way, hey, yah!
watch him sink in New Orleans
George Dub-yah!

*Neb=Head

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 01:03 AM

Good ones, Micca! Anybody else?

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: Terry Allan Hall
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 12:10 PM

One more verse:

He liked to snort a little coke
Way, hey, yah!
He liked it 'til the mirror broke!
George Dub-yah!

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: LadyJean
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 01:20 AM

Our Bushie Never Saw a Fight,
Way Hey Yah.
But wears his uniform despite
George Dubay.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Bushie Was a Warrior
From: LadyJean
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 01:27 AM

Sorry for the creep, but I came up with this yesterday, for anyone going on the march on the 24th.

The tune is "I Went Down to the River to Pray" (As sung in "Oh Brother Where Ar Thou?")

I am going to DC
To tell George W to listen to me.
To tell him the war in Iraq must end,
Oh who'll stand with me.

Thousands lost to Bush's pride.
How many more young men must die?
Thousands lost to Bush's pride
Oh who'll stand with me.

Thousands lost to Bush's pride
How many more young women must die?
etc.

Thousands lost to Bush's pride.
How many more little children must die.
Thousands etc.