• Phunter@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Most of Lehrer’s songs are still poignant today, huh? National Brotherhood Week especially.

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      3 days ago

      With a couple of small changes, Send the Marines can be updated for 2025 standards.

      What with President TACO practicing escalato on the Los Angeles
      And then the ICE-est Crisis on top of that
      It has been a nervous year
      And people have begun to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis

      Fortunately, in times of crisis like this
      America always has its number one instrument of diplomacy to fall back on
      Here’s a song about it

      When someone makes a move
      Of which we don’t approve
      Who is it that always intervenes?
      U.N. and O.A.S
      They have their place, I guess
      But first - send the Marines

      We’ll send them all we’ve got
      John Wayne and Randolph Scott
      Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
      To the shores of Tripoli
      But not to Mississippoli
      What do we do? We send the Marines!

      For might makes right
      And till they’ve seen the light
      They’ve got to be protected
      All their rights respected
      So somebody we dislike can stay elected

      Members of the corps
      All hate the thought of war
      They’d rather kill them off by peaceful means
      Stop calling it aggression

      Ooh, we hate that expression!
      We only want the world to know
      That we support the status quo
      They love us everywhere we go
      So when in doubt
      Send the Marines!