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Song Parodies -> "Republicans Roasting on an Open Fire"
Original Song Title:
"Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"
Original Performer:
Nat King Cole
Parody Song Title:
"Republicans Roasting on an Open Fire"
Parody Written by:
Susan Helf
The Lyrics
I wrote this in early December, 2006, soon after Congress passed the Miltary Commission Act, authorizing the use of torture on "alien enemy combatants."
Republicans roasting on an open fire,
The first time their hearts have been this warm
Now they sing with the ACLU choir
That their human rights have been harmed
Everybody knows Bush, Cheney and the neo-cons
Shredded our entire Bill of Rights
Now the war criminals, their eyes all aglow
Are rethinking the MCA tonight.
They know that Democrats are on their way
With habeas corpus and other goodies in their sleighs
And every mother's child who lied about Iraq
Is now promising to bring our soldiers back.
And so, I offer up this simple phrase
For kids from one to ninety-four
Unless it is used on the neo-con crew,
Ban torture forevermore.
The first time their hearts have been this warm
Now they sing with the ACLU choir
That their human rights have been harmed
Everybody knows Bush, Cheney and the neo-cons
Shredded our entire Bill of Rights
Now the war criminals, their eyes all aglow
Are rethinking the MCA tonight.
They know that Democrats are on their way
With habeas corpus and other goodies in their sleighs
And every mother's child who lied about Iraq
Is now promising to bring our soldiers back.
And so, I offer up this simple phrase
For kids from one to ninety-four
Unless it is used on the neo-con crew,
Ban torture forevermore.
parodies lyrics copyright, Susan Helf, 2006
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Welcome to the Light Side of the Amiright Force, Susan. Helf yourself to some fives.
Vere are your papers? Ah. 555
She doesn't need papers, Yoidy. She has letters of transit. Signed by General de Gaulle. Cannot be refused. Cannot even be questioned. So you don't need to see her papers. These aren't the droids you're looking for. She can go on about her business. Move along.
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