Papa Was A Rolling Beatle by Don Brennan(Inspired by Stephen Kopel)let us wrap these things
in secrets long held
under water
thought they'd drown by now
but look, they surface
bob about for a time, jetsam
it would seem, or is that flotsam
afloat, resurrecting...
TED! resurrec-TED!
NOT
“TING!”
we are now free to move about the country
allow us to introduce our selves
mickjohnkeithringo
the snow white dwarves
dancing around THE TEMPTATIONS
all we are s-a-a-a-y-ing
is give hallie burton a chance
to recycle some horrors
of america’s past
so pleased to gift wrap,
don’t you see?
take, eat, think of me
we offer this heart, body
and a bloody fookin’ melody
oh, sorry, we're not Muslim,
are we? some are? well, how about
three-fifths of a muslimperson
coo-ull-e-nuff for a free country?
all we are s-a-a-a-y-ing
is we can get by
with a little help
from ruling class friends
greed is all we need
greed is all we need
get back, Loretta
YEAH YEAH YEAH
don’t you know
MY NAME?
YOURNAME?
OURNAME?
so let us soak this further
in secrets long held nay-kid
or is that nekkid?
hooded
under wraps
under taps
DRIPS…DROPS…DRIP BY
DROP that camcorder fool!
until the boys sing
three-fifths of three hundred forty or fifty
thousand some odd nekkid muslim folks
dead under a hooded sky
a few still singing to a half-dozen
good old Carolina-California boys and a coupl’a gals
‘cuz them’s muslims you know an’ it really piss’em off
camouflaged a’ course, the white boys
snickerin’
snorting’
remember the good old
days, DUBYA? Snikerin’ and
Snortin’? yeah yeah yeah
until the boys sing
USA GITMO ABU GRAIB
to the tune of
AL QUAIDA BY THE BAY
“in ainglush godammit
‘til they get it right”
until then
let there never again
be no Martin Luther King nor British Invasion nor San Francisco Rennaisance nor –TED nor -TING!
we shall now be free to move
about the country
but we shall not be moved
by no TEMPTATIONS
off the res-erection
allow me to introduce
myself
BAGHDAD
bombed like totally, dude
like DUDE!!
shock and fucking awesome
we didn't even know LIKE
you know? her name!!!
so we're like
"bomb the mother fucker!!”
like yesterday
today
and tomorrow too
yeah-yeah-yeah
woo-woo
allow us please to introduce ourselves
georgewbush floating across the floor in the
all we need is loving arms of dick chaney
to the tune of, “His kid is gay you know what they say…”
yeah yeah yeah woo woo.
