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The Mighty Zionists 2006
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We are the Mighty Zionists!
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Hi folks. I have added a lot of videos recently. Please take a look!
Hi folks, This site acts as a personal archive of my work. So you'll find my best recordings here as well as some pretty crappy ones. The earliest recordings here were made on simple cassette decks, others were made on mobile phones, some are live recordings made at various gigs over the years, a handful were made in small recording studios, but most of the more recent ones were made at home on a Zoom portable studio, which itself is now rather ancient! If you like a song and want to download it, click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added. All my music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #162
Peak in subgenre #44
Author
Charles Cornelius Tyler
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Charles Cornelius Tyler
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October 15, 2012
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MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 4:20
Story behind the song
This is the original version of this song, to which I later added an extra verse. It pokes fun at the arguments used by Zionists to justify the expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestral lands in order to create the modern state of Israel.
Lyrics
THE MIGHTY ZIONISTS We are the mighty Zionists Don't dare to call us racists Cause that's the word that we reserve for you And if you criticise Israel We'll label you anti-Semitic as well And say you're a self-hater If you happen to be a Jew Yes we've got all the answers To any arguments And with our good friends in Washington no Arab stands a chance We've grabbed the land we wanted Where the milk and the honey flow We're holding on with the bomb and the gun And we're never ever letting go Our story starts in Switzerland Where Herzl first laid out his plan To build a place for the Jewish race In the land of Palestine There were all you Arabs living there But you were just peasants - we didn't care We had no doubt we could kick you out It was only a matter of time So we devoted all our energy To lobbying the powers that be When Balfour fell beneath our spell We knew we had it made All those years of persecution All that European shame Combined to blind the UN's mind And that's how we won the game To join our club is easy There's just a simple test It helps if you're Jewish of course And I think you know the rest You must believe in the Promised Land That's one thing to get straight Though it's hard to swallow The God we follow deals in real-estate And when you're a Believer Everything is justified Even if you have to kill And cheat and steal and lie For we are the persecuted That's why we must be strong And why whatever we do is righteous And whatever you do is wrong Now everybody hates us Except for the USA They give us the guns and they give us the bombs We never have to pay Terrorists don't frighten us In fact we wrote the rules With the Stern Gang and the Irgun Do you think we're a bunch of fools? It's only wishful thinking To pray we'll go away Our claim began with Abraham Like it happened yesterday So here's our message for you Arabs You were only camping here And when we got our hands on the Bible lands Your history disappeared!
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