Guest guest Posted February 14, 2003 Report Share Posted February 14, 2003 Fixing To Die in Iraq Rag Country Joe and the Fish Well Come on all you big strong men Uncle sam needs your help again Hes got hiself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in Iraq So put down your books and pick up your guns cause were gonna have a whole lot of fun And its one two three what are we fighting for, dont ask me I dont give a damn next stop’s bombing Sadamn and its five six seven open up the pearly gates well there aint no time to wonder why whoopie were all going to die Come on drug czar’s let's move fast Your big chance has come at last Gotta get out and kill them Iraqi’s 'Cause the only good poor is one that's dead The only way that peace'll be won Is when we blow 'em all to kingdom come And its one two three what are we fighting for, dont ask me I dont give a damn next stop is Sadamn and its five six seven open up the pearly gates well there aint no time to wonder why whoopie were all going to die Now come on Wall Street don't be slow This war is a go go go Lots of money to be made Supplying the army with the tools of trade Just be sure when you drop the bomb That you drop it on Sadamn And its one two three what are we fighting for, dont ask me I dont give a damn next stop is Iraq and its five six seven open up the pearly gates well there aint no time to wonder why whoopie were all going to die Come on mothers throughout the land Pack your boys off to the desert land Come on fathers don't hesitate Get 'em there before it's too late You can be the first one on your block To have your kid come home in a box And its one two three what are we fighting for, dont ask me I dont give a damn next stop is Iraq and its five six seven open up the pearly gates well there aint no time to wonder why whoopie were all going to die ----------------- UNIVERSAL SOLDIER Buffy Sainte-Mari He's five feet two and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of 31 and he's only 17 He's been a soldier for a thousand years He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an athiest, a Jain, a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew and he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will kill you for me my friend and me for you And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France, he's fighting for the USA, and he's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan, and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way And he's fighting for Democracy and fighting for the Reds He says it's for the peace of all He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die and he never sees the writing on the walls But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau Without him Caesar would have stood alone He's the one who gives his body as a weapon to a war and without him all this killing can't go on He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame His orders come from far away no more They come from him, and you, and me and brothers can't you see this is not the way we put an end to war. NOTES: I wrote " Universal Soldier " in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in Toronto in the early sixties. It's about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all. Donovan had a hit with it in 1965. bsm ----------------- Down on the Base Leon Russell When I was home on Skyview Drive Was electronically alive But now I'm livin' in Vanderberg So Militarily absurd When things are slow down on the base We can shoot tear gas in the dummy's face We can stick our bayonettes in the ground When the president comes we'll stand around He'll give a dollar for your fingers Two dollars for your eyes You pay the price of freedom, Boy so realize Well I guess I'll help in B.F.Nam Teach 'em how to vote and how to bomb My life's a small enough price to pay To teach those commies American Way Now I'm layin' on my face And the death explosions every place I thought I heard the medic say he's blind I guess I'm next to stand in line I'll get a dollar for my fingers Two dollars for my eyes I paid the price of freedom, now I realize I can see the world's a better place if I could see it all I heard my German Shepard coming down the hall ----------------- EVE OF DESTRUCTION Barry McGuire 1965 The eastern world it is explodin', violence flarin', bullets loadin', you're old enough to kill but not for votin', you don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin', and even the Jordan river has bodies floatin', but you tell me over and over and over again my friend, ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say? Can't you see the fear that I'm feeling today? If the button is pushed, there's no running away, There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave, take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy, but you tell me over and over and over again my friend, ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin', I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin', I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation, handful of Senators don't pass legislation, and marches alone can't bring integration, when human respect is disintegratin', this whole crazy world is just too frustratin', and you tell me over and over and over again my friend, ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. Think of all the hate there is in Red China! Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama! Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place, the poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace, you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace, hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace, and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend, ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. 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