Yankee Doodle, send them up Peter Ravenscroft - 03.04.2003 02:02
A ditty and some worldwide anti-war boycott news Yankee Doodle, send them up Yankee Doodle went to town On all the little kiddies Stuck a feather in his hat And called them his enemies. Yankee Doodle keep it up, You would-be eastern grandee, Mind girls’ feet and watch your step, And with the bombs be handy. Yankee Doodle send them up as high as kites on candy those pretty boys in airforce blue and with the bombs so handy. Yankee Doodle send them up, You oily Texas dandy, Send fireworks at market time, Then with the mike be handy. Yankee Doodle, shock and awe? And then your great idea? So they’ll all grow up loving you and help you bomb Korea? Yankee Doodle lock them up in cages down in Cuba for they’ve no shoes or uniforms and don’t respect Geneva. Yankee Doodle, we love you, Most diggers cheer this slaughter, as Kilroy does his Irish jig and Basra calls for water. Yankee Doodle keep it up And please send lots more armor With bunker-busting DU shells To sterilize the water. Yankee Doodle, keep it up, it’s the grandest show in town We love you as you waltz to hell And the kiddies all fall down. Yankee Doodle, teach them how to love their Uncle Sam, this nation half of children, like you taught poor Vietnam. Yankee Doodle, loft it up, your old blood-spangled banner. Old Gory lights arabian nights, In the usual Yankee manner. Yankee Doodle, without you, They’ve danced five thousand years, Now you bring bouquets of doodle bombs, And you wonder at their tears? Peter Ravenscroft. 31st March, 2003, Written as the bombs fell on the people of Iraq. Reprint freely, improve, edit, burn, claim you wrote it, send hate mail, compliment or ignore, I don’t care, now. Just boycott the USA, Britain, Australia and Poland, please, folks. For the lost kids of Iraq, and in defence of the kids of the next target country. As of 2 April, 2003, there were anti-war boycott calls from the following: the US, the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Chile, Brasil, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. 36 countries, plus some. E-Mail: raven@samford.net |