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...
(SALEM, Ore.) - On December 1st I told our viewers about a new Afghan War protest song under production, based on the catchy lyrics of the Country Joe McDonald song, Vietnam Rag: "Feels Like I'm Fixing to Die" - made famous during Woodstock.
A local friend and contact, Bruce Arnold, had written the new verses based on the famous 60's tune that came to represent a war and the movement that eventually rose against it, hoping that the idea might still hold strength.
And since it was strength he was after, there were few better obvious choices than John Allen, General Manager of the Veterans Today Network, a group that already works very closely with Salem-News.com.
Country Joe McDonald's song and its stark and comical confrontation with death ripped the nation's heart in half in 1969. As the country finds itself increasingly involved in a war highly reminiscent of Vietnam in Afghanistan, both Arnold and Allen, "Johnny Punish" (JohnnyPunish.com) saw the opportunity to harness that energy and try once again to put it to use, to save lives.
Yo,Yo yowake up texters, listen inUncle Sam's after more boogeymenDubya left Barack in a jamWay over in AfghanistanSo drop dat i-Phone get a gunWe're gonna have a whole lotta fun
And it's one, two, three, fourWhat are we fighting for?Not freedom or our fellow manNext stop Afghanistan
"Magnificient Afghanistan by Johnny Punish, lyrics by Bruce Arnold
And it's five, six, seven, eightOpen up those pearly gatescause there ain't no need to wonder whyFor oil we're all gonna die.
NowCome McChrystal let's move fastYour big chance has come at lastGotta kill all those towel headsThough muslims aint who we should dreadOur robber barons now they're the onesWho blew the Towers to kingdom come.
Huh!
WellCome on Wall StreetDon't move so slowSince 9-1-1 it's go-go-go.There's plenty money to be madeSupply both sides with tools of da trade.Just hope if they grab a bomb,They drop it on Dick Cheney's lawn
Well
Come on mothers throughout the landSend your child to Afghanistan.Come on fathers, don't hesitate,Send 'em off before it's too late.Be the first one on your blockTo have your kid come home in a box.
Wave ba ba ba bye to the busLike Strummer said you're one of usCold water in your faceBrings to you back to this awful placeWave bye byeyeah wave bye bye
Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor.Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), the first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several other awards including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website, affiliated with Google News and several other major search engines and news aggregators.You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com
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