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You've seen U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan perform "Call Me Maybe" and "Telephone," but you ain't seen nothing until you've seen these handsome Swedish marines' lip-syncing "Grease's" systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic show-stopper "Greased Lightning."
Forget about the USO, we already have enough performing talent in the world's armed forces
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LumosMaxima
(585 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)all american girl
(1,788 posts)William769
(55,146 posts)Ratty
(2,100 posts)See if you can spot it
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)Ratty
(2,100 posts)But look a little closer. There are others too. Let's say Sweden doesn't have a Don't Ask Don't Tell.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)and it is not Afghanistan... must be a tradition
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)can give the Beach Boys a run for their money.
The lyrics, the best that I could tell...
OMG Those lyrics are great. And the guys who are singing sound so much like the Beach Boys.
I think my fav lyrics are
"Croatia, Albania
Somewhere near Romania
Andorra, NATO, Why the hell do we go?
Somalia, Grenada, we'll rescue Kuwait-a
Somewhere far overseas,
there's a place called Kosovo
That's where u don't want to go
if ur Albanian and all.
Protecting human rights, airstrikes and fire fights
And we'll be dropping our bombs wherever
Serbian bad guys hide.
Just up from Kosovo.
Somalia, Grenada, We'll rescue you Kuwait-a
We screwed ya-Rwanda-wished we coulda helped ya.
Iraqi embargo, How it is we don't know
We'll kick some ass, and then see how it goes.
But then we really don't know.
Good luck to Kosovo.
Milosovich, you sorry son of a bitch.
Every time we go
to little places like Kosovo,
we never really know what happens after we go.
Tough luck for Kosovo.
Repeat
That sucks for Kosovo.
Very well done Norwegian NATO guys...
Agony
(2,605 posts)nice job on the lyrics, the actual lyrics are in the link below. ("It's Euro"/"Andorra"
"In 1999, Seattle-based radio talkshow host Bob Rivers wrote a satirical cover version of the harmless Beach Boys song Kokomo (Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand). The new text (see below) was not harmless at all, but very biting (We screwed ya Rwanda, wish we coulda helped ya) and mainly criticised the USs self-conception as a world policeman:"
http://www.wartist.org/blog/?p=448&lang=en
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)to cover Carly Rae Jepson, but I know they did it and then dedicated it to the Miami cheerleaders, and then they did one back.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Here's USN's entry: