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This year we've been celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the civil war and the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of world war i and the twentieth anniversary of the end of world war ii |
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L in all it's been a good year for the war buffs and a number of lps and television specials have come out capitalizing on all this "nostalgia" with particular emphasis on the songs of |
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Various wars. i feel that if any songs are going to come out of world war iii we'd better start writing them now. i have one here. you might call it a bit of pre-nostalgia. this is the song that |
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Of the boys sang as they went bravely of to world war iii. |
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So long, mom, |
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I'm off to drop the bomb, |
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So don't wait up for me. |
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But while you swelter |
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Down there in your shelter, |
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You can see me |
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On your tv. |
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While we're attacking frontally, |
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Watch brinkally and huntally, |
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Describing contrapuntally |
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The cities we have lost. |
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No need for you to miss a minute |
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Of the agonizing holocaust. (yeah!) |
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Little johnny jones he was a u.s. pilot, |
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And no shrinking vi'let was he. |
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He was mighty proud when world war three was declared, |
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He wasn't scared, |
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No siree! |
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And this is what he said on |
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His way to armageddon: |
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So long, mom, |
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I'm off to drop the bomb, |
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So don't wait up for me. |
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But though i may roam, |
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I'll come back to my home, |
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Although it may be |
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A pile of debris. |
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Remember, mommy, |
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I'm off to get a commie, |
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So send me a salami, |
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And try to smile somehow. |
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I'll look for you when the war is over, |
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An hour and a half from now! |