Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay (Barry Kerr)

Subject: Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay by Barry Kerr
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 12:48 PM

I would love the lyrics of this song...a great tune..anybody have the lyrics? Sean

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay by Barry Kerr
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 12:53 PM

I have a set of lyrics re Gitmo ! Is there any more info to pin down the right set ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay by Barry Kerr
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 12:56 PM

The lyric I have is to the tune 'Irish Washerwoman'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay by Barry Kerr
From: Barry Finn
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 05:22 PM

I guess the "Git" is a popular topic of protest songs & there's good reason for that too. I also have one.


       Guantanamo Bay (words & tune by Barry Finn 2/24/06)


Guantanamo Bay, hey, I'm on my way.

I won't be coming back from there, not in manys a day.

Guantanamo Bay, am I here to stay?


Chorus: Where the sun shines hard on the dogs in the yard

       An' I'm here to say there's no place in the world

       like Guantanamo Bay.


Let's all get naked, in Guantanamo Bay

Lie in the sand; put our tush in a Bush, where the nights are gay

Let's all get cute with the girls in the suits


It's hard to believe, that I made here

I'm a lazy do nothing, no good to no one, without a care

My luck's so fine, who could be so kind, to land me here in a spa so far from grit & grime


I'm getting island fever, I can't handle the truth

I'm getting buggered all day, can't get from the 'Git', I'm so young I'm a youth

Where the akee & rice, & salt fish is nice


I'm dying here, I live in fear

I don't think I've done wrong, I just wrote me a song of a place so queer

This ain't what I thought, this ain't what I bought


I must be mad, I guess I've just been had

I'm told I've got to go, that I don't know what they thought I knowed, it's bad

I've been MIA'd, I've been CIA'd, I've been christen, I've been crossed, I've been kicked I've been tossed


Last Chorus:

To where the sun shines hard on the dogs in the yard

An I'm here to say there's no place in the world like Guantanamo Bay


Barry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay by Barry Kerr
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 07:02 PM

Youtube performance by Kerr.

Third from bottom of the page.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay by Barry Kerr
From: Barry Finn
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 08:08 PM

Thanks Peace

Barry

Subject: Lyr Add: GUANTANAMO BAY (Barry Kerr)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 11:59 PM

Copied from here:

GUANTANAMO BAY
Barry Kerr

Their call goes up in the morning,
Then their prayers rain down.
Shackled to the ground,
In a far away land,
Thousands of miles from home.

CHORUS: Don't speak to me of democracy,
Your lies are plain to be seen.
Spread around the world,
Your flag of lies unfurled,
While you torture in Guantanamo Bay.

In orange overalls,
Chained to the walls,
Blindfolded, beaten and sore.
Only free in their dreams,
You can still hear their screams,
While tortured in Guantanamo Bay. CHORUS

Countless arrested without warning,
Flown away out of sight.
Transportation, humiliation,
Your notion of justice isn't right. CHORUS

CIA, FBI, MI6, and MI5.
Secret men, destroying lives,
With torture in Guantanamo Bay. CHORUS x 2

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guantanamo Bay by Barry Kerr
From: GUEST,the writer
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 08:03 AM

the proper lyrics for the first verse are;

prayer call goes up in the morning,
men who need their prayers right now,
shackled to the ground in a far off land,
thousands of miles from home,



hope this is of help

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