MIG NBR

[Jim Gammon]

Allow me to indulge myself with a minor tribute (edited) to our troops:

Talking Baghdad Blues

Jim Gammon, apologies to Tom Paxton



I was just living my own life

When I was sent to fight this fight



I got a call from Uncle Sam

Who has a tiff with old Saddam



 

Making scuds

Hireing thugs

Helping Bin Laden do his thing



 

So I find myself in out in the sand

It covers this old dusty land



I'm drinking water like a fish

Just to have enough to take a piss



 

No one knows

Just where it goes

But I seem to sweat pure salt from my skin



 

Well one day I was eating an mre

When a dust storm came and covered me



Couldn't see my hand it was so thick

The mre was full of grit



 

No where to run

Couldn't find my gun

But it did improve the flavor, I must say



 

Well then came the time as it comes to all

The need to answer natures call



But where to go? No way to see

There ain't no place like where I be



 

I just had to go 

and believe me bro

Its the world's biggest cat pan over there



 

Well I finished up and the air did clear

Saw my unit was pretty near



I took a step and dropped to my knees

My shorts felt like they were full of fleas



 

The problem, you see

came through to me

It took just that minute to fill my shorts with sand



 

I did a shake and a wild dance

To shake that sand down from my pants

Then I saw a reporter from CNN



He'd filmed me dancing in the fading light

It made the evening news that night

 



The very next day

A citation came form the pentagon

Seems my morale was a tribute to the corp


		
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