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October 12, 2007
Contest
I will give a small prize to anyone who can identify the origin of this musical snippet. Be warned this prize may include a hug, whether you want one or not.
Hint: this is from an album I consider the only artistically successful musical work about U.S foreign policy.
Posted at October 12, 2007 02:55 PM | TrackBackJon Schwarz and His Amazing Anarchists.
Your self-promotion is shameless.
Posted by: Sully at October 12, 2007 03:42 PMI haven't heard it but I already know the answer to the question. THE FIGHTING CLOWNS ----FIRESIGN THEATRE.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at October 12, 2007 05:16 PM"Oh, Afghanistan, save us from Babylon." (LOVE the oldies!!!)
Posted by: Mike Meyer at October 12, 2007 05:20 PMMike you horrible hussy, I finally had a chance to win a prize and you stole it from me.
And I really did need a hug. Even from a guy. Its been that kinda week.
Posted by: SPIIDERWEB™ at October 12, 2007 07:57 PMIf I have won I donate the prize to the SPIIDERWEB site. (with a HUG)
Posted by: Mike Meyer at October 12, 2007 11:15 PMGoing to listen to it, just to remember how it was so long, long ago.
"The President is driving us
and NONE of us will make a fuss
this bus
is off
to war"
I'm asking my readers to help out, but like most of the lefty blogosphere they're a bunch of soulless baby boomers who are all twelve albums behind on Springsteen's output.
Posted by: Mark Gisleson at October 13, 2007 01:48 PMSounds like John Lennon clowning in the silly voice he used while goofing around on Don't Be Cruel (which can sometimes be heard at Beatles-A- Rama radio).
Posted by: JW at October 13, 2007 02:51 PMI tried to post something earlier, but was bounced out by the server. Now I forgot what I was going to write, so it probably was whatever I forgot.
Posted by: jonathan versen at October 13, 2007 06:39 PM
