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NOT FORTY-THREE (43)
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Written/recorded June 2006...from "Act Naturally"
the army needs y o u
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MY OLDIES. In post-9/11 Bush-Cheney days, I vented by writing "MOp-eds", musical op-eds. I had an acoustic, electric, Yamaha keyboard, & MusicMaker10.
The light was all shining on me for a while there back in the oughts and I made some CDs and I uploaded some of the songs here. I came back in 2021, on the occasion of Darth Vadar's 80th birthday, to upload a couple more Dick (Cheney) songs I recorded back then, and I've re-ordered my songs so we can party like it's 2006 or 7.
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Genre
Podcasts • Comedy - Political Humor
Author
Morrison/Russell-Stormin
Rights
2006 Stormin Norman the nag
Uploaded
January 30, 2021
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MP3 1.5 MB • 128 kbps • 1:41
Story behind the song
Things got ugly fast in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. Things had to change to keep the U.S. military from running out of bodies. Wrote and recorded in 2006. From "MOp-Eds Vol. I"
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NOT FORTY-THREE (43) (from "Act Naturally") They're gonna take me in the Army They're gonna make a soldier out of me I'm dumb and slow and I've got lots of tattoos But it's all good 'cause I'm not forty-three Well it used to be that we fought wars with youngsters Killin' boys eighteen to twenty-five But now we'll take any old breathing chumpster 'Cause IEDs have made enlistments dive Well I hope I'll have a good time in the Army I got my gun and stack of MREs I'm forty-two and headed for Ramadi And all because I'm not quite forty-three Well it used to be that we fought wars with youngsters Killin' boys eighteen to twenty-five But now we'll take any old breathin' chumpster Because the IEDs have made enlistments dive dive dive Well we've made a world that's sad for the Iraqis The bad guy's gone but life's a tragedy Security's a joke and power's lacking And it's all thanks to George Bush 43
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