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Mon Dec-25-06 12:22 AM
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The Cannons of Christianity |
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The Corpulent Media tonight did their usual bit, showing the hapless and deluded US military joined together singing good Christian religious songs in a foreign land where the "wrong" religion prevails, and observed they would resume their role of breaking down doors and terrorizing families tomorrow. Not their words, exactly, but the essence was that Gestapo tactics against the "enemy" population would continue in the doomed effort to "pacify" them through brute force. I was reminded of this oldie:
The Cannons of Christianity By Phil Ochs
Christian cannons have fired at my days With the warning beneath the holy blaze And bow to our authority Say the cannons of Christianity
Oh the children will be sent to schools Minds of clay are molded to their rules Learn to fear all of eternity Warn the cannons of Christianity
Holy hands will count the money raised Like a king the Lord is richly praised On a cross of diamond majesty Say the cannons of Christianity
Missionaries will travel on crusades The word is given, the heathen souls are saved Conversions to our morality Sigh the cannons of Christianity
Come the wars and turn the rules around To bend your soul on the battle ground And the Lord will march beside me Drone the cannons of Christianity
Cathedral walls will glitter with their gold And the sermons speak through silver robes Building castles amidst the poverty Say the cannons of Christianity
Worship now and wash your sins away Drop the coins, fall to your knees and pray Cleanse the world of all hypocrisy Smile the cannons of Christianity
Christian cannons have fired at my days With the warning beneath the holy blaze And bow to our authority Say the cannons of Christianity
And of course, another song:
White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land By Phil Ochs
The pilots playing poker in the cockpit of the plane The casualties arriving like the dropping of the rain And a mountain of machinery will fall before a man When you're white boots marching in a yellow land
It's written in the ashes of the village towns we burn It's written in the empty bed of the fathers unreturned And the chocolate in the childrens eyes will never understand Red blow the bugles of the dawn The morning has arrived you must be gone And the lost patrol chase their chartered(*) souls Like cold/old(?) whores following tired armies
Train them well, the men who will be fighting by your side And never turn your back if the battle turns the tide For the colours of a civil war are louder than commands When you're white boots marching in a yellow land
Blow them from the forest and burn them from your sight Tie their hands behind their back and question through the night But when the firing squad is ready they'll be spitting where they stand At the white boots marching in a yellow land
Red blow the bugles of the dawn The morning has arrived you must be gone And the lost patrol chase their chartered souls Like cold whores following tired armies
The comic and the beauty queen are dancing on the stage Raw recruits are lining up like coffins in a cage We're fighting in a war we lost before the war began We're the white boots marching in a yellow land
And the lost patrol chase their chartered souls like cold whores following tired armies
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