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#285-Better Than Saddam (2004)
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Satirical protest song written at the height of Shock & Awe. Check out some of the facts.
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Charts
Peak #67
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2004
Uploaded
July 13, 2010
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MP3 2.9 MB 128 kbps 3:13
Story behind the song
This is political satire. It was written in 2004. It was inspired by a Steven Colbert report on Comedy Central where he said that America is not who we are but who we think we are and those who say who we are is what we do must therefore be insane or unpatriotic. This song has an unpleasant edge and is not funny...because all the facts are true. It's a title we can all agree with...or can we?
Lyrics
#285-We’re Better Than Saddam © 2004 by Rob Lincoln Entire song—G C D G Note that the lyrics are significantly different than recording. These are the correct lyrics. G C Some people try to put down Uncle Sam D G They just don’t understand They don’t love the red white and blue But you and I we know what’s true Now I know our army’s made a few miscues Killed thousands of civilians what can you do? When your fighting for their freedom some children must die But if the truth be told it’s ok to lie Why? Chorus 1st & 2nd chorus 1st chorus 2nd chorus Cause we’re better than Saddam /We’re better than Saddam/ We’re better than Saddam This ain’t a Vietnam /Killed his 14 year old grandson/ Our tortures more fun Got bigger guns and bombs/Put his dead sons on display/ Saddam kept their clothes on For the crusade we’re on/Showed him the American way/We like dogs & guns Now freedom is what we went there for It may not have been what we said before But we had to quickly find some better excuse We put the UN resolution to good use Saddam was a threat he was very bad Killed tens of thousands when he got mad Don’t matter that was back about a decade before Just seemed the right time to have another war 2nd Chorus Now Iraq is free the happy people are saved Don’t worry about that prison called Abu Graib The torture they went through didn’t hurt as much Because Uncle Sam has a gentler touch There may not have been any WMD’s But lots of cash is flowing in some industries It’s not just for oil that we fought this war But armaments, elections and the holy dollar Chorus We’re Better Than Saddam/same He killed more than us/he wouldn’t play by our rules As long as we kill less/we kill kinder and gentler Don’t see what’s the fuss/We’d never be so cruel Recording on capo 6
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