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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 01:27 AM
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Do you suppose Bushco has mistaken Randy Newman for a prophet?
They seem to have missed the satire, in favor of a literal interpretaion. They must think it was scripture:

No one likes us
I don't know why.
We may not be perfect
But heaven knows we try.
But all around even our old friends put us down.
Let's drop the big one and see what happens.

We give them money
But are they grateful?
No they're spiteful
And they're hateful.
They don't respect us so let's surprise them;
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them.

Now Asia's crowded
And Europe's too old.
Africa's far too hot,
And Canada's too cold.
And South America stole our name.
Let's drop the big one; there'll be no one left to blame us.

Bridge:
We'll save Australia;
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo.
We'll build an all-American amusement park there;
They've got surfing, too.

Well, boom goes London,
And boom Paris.
More room for you
And more room for me.
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town.
Oh, how peaceful it'll be;
We'll set everybody free;
You'll have Japanese kimonos, baby,
There'll be Italian shoes for me.
They all hate us anyhow,
So let's drop the big one now.
Let's drop the big one now.
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 01:30 AM
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1. .........although Randy does seem to be a bit prophetic.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 03:02 AM
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2. Great song.
:)

He's got a whole lot of 'em.
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 03:07 AM
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3. Sounds like the PNAC anthem
...
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 05:48 AM
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4. They also mistook 1984
For a civics textbook.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 05:50 AM
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5. Petite people better watch out
Strong possibility that they'll end up Gitmo-bound.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 08:34 AM
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7. HAH!
Hey, "Burn On, Big River" was for real...
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 07:57 AM
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6. Another one, for when Boo$h appeals to a "higher" father figure.
God's Song

Cain slew Abel Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were to multiply
Why must any of the children die?
So he asked the Lord
And the Lord said:

"Man means nothing he means less to me
than the lowiliest cactus flower
or the humblest yucca tree
he chases round this desert
cause he thinks that's where i'll be
that's why i love mankind

I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
from the squalor and the filth and the misery
How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me
That's why i love mankind"

The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV
They picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They said "Lord the plague is on the world
Lord no man is free
The temples that we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won't take care of us
Won't you please please let us be?"

And the Lord said
And the Lord said

"I burn down your cities--how blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
You must all be crazy to put your faith in me
That's why i love mankind
You really need me
That's why i love mankind"



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FunBobbyMucha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 08:46 AM
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8. "Last night I saw Lester Maddox on the TV show, with
some smart-ass New York Jew,
the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox,
and the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too,
well he may be a fool but he's our fool
if they think they're better than him they're wrong
so I went to the park and I took some paper along
and that's when I wrote this song:

We talked real funny round
we drink too much and we laugh too loud
we're too dumb to make it in no Northern town
but we're keepin the niggers down

we're rednecks we're rednecks
we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
we're rednecks we're rednecks
but we're keeping the niggers down..."
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