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We've Decided to Have a War
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Written in 1984, this was prophetic... unfortunately.
alternative blues comedy
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Alternative. Blues. Comedy. Acoustic. Folk. Jazz. Protest. Country. Car songs. Motorcycle songs. Horse songs. Songs about mothers. Songs about being a mother.
Musically, I'm a storyteller. As a storyteller, I use music. Note, 5/10/06: I just took "Ridin' In Alone" off the page, because in my studies (I'm doing my Master of Arts in Humanities, with a Storytelling emphasis, at Prescott College) I have begun to do archival research, and that was one of several songs that were just not correct. Bits and pieces of it were, but the whols thing was incorrect... Damn! And it was one of my favorites! I have rewritten the lyrics, keeping the melody and chorus, and centered on Father Kino, an amazing man who did indeed ride alone throughout Apacheland in the late 1600's, building missions and bringing cattle, wheat, and orchards to Alta Pimeria. Gotta re-record it. I am mostly working by myself right now, although Bill Vasquez (keyboard, small brass, flutes) and I have long-range plans for recording and performing some wildly jazzy stuff. Working to pay the bills, unfortunately, gets in the way of musical time together at this point.
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Charts
Peak #61
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
MaryK
Rights
1984, 2003
Uploaded
February 18, 2004
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
Still a protest singer, just like in the 60's.
Lyrics
We've decided to have a war Though we haven't figured out what for We're not ready for the big hit So we'll just nuke 'em a little bit We love to see the blood and gore. We've got a predilection for war You know what this obsession is for To insure incumbents' re-election Over anyone's objection And so economic repression is no more. We want to build more planes And train pilots to fly 'em We want to hire some brains It won't take much to buy 'em-- we'll try 'em Perhaps you really don't understand Just how we're gonna show our hand We've got our choice of places With minority-type races We wouldn't want a war in our own land. We will unite our nation Turn everyone patriotic Killing is such a sensation Makes us all quite neurotic-- psychotic We've decided to have a war And put the unemployed to work once more Stop the population explosion And the internal corrosion-- Isn't that what war is for? (2nd time) So we've decided to have a war!
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