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And Freedom Too

Bill Frederick
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Bill Frederick


From the steaming Mekong Delta
To the shores of Tonkin Bay,
Advisers are advising
And the peasants romp and play.

Bombs of jellied gasoline
Make night as bright as day,
And burning huts and Buddhist monk
Are there to light our way.

We fight for coal and zinc and manganese,
Lumber, fruits and rice,
Rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapok, tea and spice,
Quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through.
We fight for tin and tungsten... and freedom too.

Oh listen to the screaming
Across the jungle floor,
I hear the people shouting :
"Oh what a lovely war !"

We're testing our new weapons
And we're learning quite a lot,
And as they say in Washington :
"It's the only war we've got."

We fight for coal and zinc and manganese,
Lumber, fruits and rice,
Rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapok, tea and spice,
Quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through.
We fight for tin and tungsten... and freedom too.

It's often I have wondered
As I marched to the war,
What is the use of dying,
What are we fighting for?

But Eisenhower said it,
I saw him on T. V.
When we took over from the French
In 1953 :

"We fight for coal and zinc and manganese,
Lumber, fruits and rice,
Rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapok, tea and spice,
Quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through.
We fight for tin and tungsten... and freedom too."

We're fighting wars on poverty
Throughout the world today,
We're killing off poor people
In a most efficient way.

We can't lose Southeast Asia,
So we'll bomb it 'til it's bare,
And then I'll start a tungsten mine
And become a millionaire.

We fight for coal and zinc and manganese,
Lumber, fruits and rice,
Rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapok, tea and spice,
Quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through.
We fight for tin and tungsten... and freedom too.



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