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The Afghan Rag

Original lyrics from "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag"
a.k.a. "Vietnam Rag" by Country Joe McDonald,
revised and updated by Bruce Arnold

Johnny Punish has just recorded "The Magnificent Afghanistan" with lyrics from "The Afghan Rag" by Bruce Arnold based on the original protest classic "Vietnam Rag" by Country Joe McDonald. Listen or download the MP3 here:

Yo, wake up texters, listen in,
Uncle Sam's after more boogeymen;
Dubya left Barack in a terrible jam
Way over in Afghanistan.
So put down your iPhone and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun. 

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

Well come on, McChrystal, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta kill all those towel heads -
Though Muslims ain't who we should dread.
Our robber barons, they're the ones
Who blew the Towers to kingdom come. 

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

Huh! 

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Since 9-1-1, it's go-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
Supplying both sides with the tools of the trade.
Just hope if they grab a Pakistani bomb,
They drop it on Dick Cheney's lawn. 

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Send your child to Afghanistan.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your kid come home in a box. 

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

--with apologies to Country Joe MacDonald
( http://www.countryjoe.com/feelmus.htm )

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