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Exploiting the means provided. Antiwar lyrics to popular Karaoke tunes. Perform at your own risk. Original songs to any tune that fits can be found at www.ibell.co.uk/vortex/kararchy/songs.

Toady B.Liar
To the tune of "Johnny B Goode" by Chuck Berry

Way from Westiminster up in Milbank Tower
Way off from the people in the thrall of power
Forging dossiers on a matter most dire
There ruled a christian leader name of Toady B.Liar
Who never really learned to tell the truth so well
But he could spin, evade, and lie just like he's tollin' a knell

Go go/Go Toady go go go/Go Toady go go go
Go Toady go go go/Go Toady go go go
Right Wing Toady B.Liar

He carried his compassion on a tailored cuff
But when it came to helping he could be quite ruff
Shutting off the water and blocking the aid
Preaching to the drumbeat that the White House laid
Protest marches worldwide know they'd stop and say
Oh my how that lackey choir boy can slay

[Chorus to Mad Bad Toady B.Liar ]

Well G Dubya told him Toady you my main main man
We're gonna have to wing it on the long term plan
Refugees gonna come from miles around
Cities under curfew when the sun goes down
Grieving soldiers' parents know it just ain't right
Sayin' Toady B. Lied tonight

[Chorus to Sick Slick Toady B. Liar]
[Repeat chorus with insults of choice]

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( I wrote this song the day Tony Blair claimed UK sappers
Cullingworth and Allsop had been "executed" in Iraq.
The results of their UK autopsy have never been made public.)



We Will Bomb You
To the tune of "We Will Rock You" by Queen

Aah
Iraq you a rogue state
gonna be a big threat some day
you got dubya-em-dee
just wait n see
And you got oil all over the place
sayin
We will we will bomb you
We will we will bomb you


Iraq you a police state
Our Tanks on the street gonna make you free some day
We got blood on our hands
Inadequate plans
sprayin DU all over the place
stating
We will we will bomb you / sing it
We will we will bomb you

Iraq, you a failed state
Pleadin NGOs gonna bring
You some aid some day
We just aint sure
That its secure
First we gotta put you back into your place

We will we will bomb you / sing it
We will we will bomb you / everybody
We will we will bomb you
We will we will bomb you
Alright

King of the Spinners
To the tune of "I Wanna Be lIke You" from Walt Disneys "Jungle Book"

CHIEF:
Now I'm the king of the spinners,
Oh, The flight suit CIC
My survey group has flown the coup
And that's what's bothering me
I said I was a liberator
And marched right into town
And did just like those empire men
Got tired of monkeyin' around!

CHORAS (Spy chiefs):
Doo Be Do
We wanna learn whats true
The knowns we said unknown
Were said known knowns by you
We'll look whats's true
And then we'll see
The known unknowns known unknown by thee,

CHIEF:
Don't try to kid me spyboys
I made a deal with you
What I desired was peril dire
To make my schemes come true
Just give me your secret secrets
Cos I'm clueless what to do
I've done the acts, /now/ show the facts
So I can just blame you


CHORAS (US families):
Doo Be Do
We wanna learn whats true,
The reason why, troops had to die
And still do
Though its not news
And we don't see
Their known known coffins up on our TV

CHEIF:
I've aped his mannerisms, we're like a set of twins
No one can tell where Saddam ends and Uncle Sam begins
And when we cross their thresholds, we keep boots on our feet
A liberated nation aint no place for etti-keet,


CHORAS (Iraq families):
Doo Be Do
We all know wnats true,
The reason why, our people die
And still do
We know whats's true
Beacuse we see
The nature of your sham democracy.

CHORAS (All):
We know whats's true
Beacuse we see
The nature of our sham democracy.
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( I wrote this one 31/01/04 after G W Bush (somewhat belatedly) announced he wanted
know the "facts" about Iraq WMD.

What I Go To War For
To the tune of "What I Go To School For" by Busted
( Ideally in a George W Bush voice )

Oh Yeah
The crude it prays upon my mind
I count the days till it is mine.
Unspoken truth though clear enough
We're all addicted to the stuff.

And I know whatever comes to pass
Tony Blair will kiss my ass.
Make ultimatums by the score
If they give we'll demand more

[ Chorus:
Oil's what we go to war for
The black blood of the earth's core
Of course we will deny it
But only fools will buy it.
Oil's what we go to war for
The black blood of the earth's core
Wars we'll have in plenty
To keep your tank from empty.
That's what we go to war for
Oil's what we go to war for. ]

The stuff it may lie overseas
But that doesn't bother me.
We'll find a way to shut 'em down
Choose a pretext then fire rounds

And I'll bomb their leaders in their homes
I don't care if they're alone
Kill any civilians there
Its not as if my voters care

[Chorus]
Those to whom we would preach all day
are now looking at us in a different way
I guess, thats why, anger is getting so high
They can see those tell tale signs telling them its oil thats on our minds
You can tell that they know the score when they shout out that
oil's what we go to war for.
It's what we go to war for.

Packed DU shells in all our tanks
Opened accounts in our banks
Our bombs and missiles light the skies
The UN can't believe their eyes

[Chorus]
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Well Meaning Deception
To the tune of "When A Man Loves a Women" by Percy Sledge

Well Meaning Deception
If thats what it was
We betrayed the world
For the oil they found.
When we're bad, you won't hear it
We can do no wrong.
Turn our back on anyone
Who puts us down.

Well Meaning Deception
Spend a billion bucks
Dropping bombs to fulfill our greed.
We'll destroy all thier comforts
No water, power, or food
If thats the way
Its gotta be.

Well Meaning Deception
Liberate everything they've got
Trying to hold on
To a pretence of care.
Dead babies don't make us bad.

Well Meaning Deception
Deep down in your soul
You know just how just
We really are.
Fools played by a fool.
Most don't want to know.
Patriotic eyes can never see.

Well Meaning Deception
Mistaken but not wrong
Selective emphasis
Is not a lie.
Well Meaning Deception
A reason for a war
Because the real ones
Would not have served.

Well Meaning Deception
You know exactly how it goes
Because its pretty clear
We had a plan.
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( I wrote this after the "Dodgy Dossier"
HoC committee interrogation of Jack Straw on 24 June 2003

Friendly Fire
To the tune of "Light My Fire" by The Doors.
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You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Casualties ain't gettin higher

Coming under friendly fire
Bringing down the friendly fire
Fighting sets the night on fire

The time to hesitate is due
The perils we all face are dire
As now, one and all may lose
And our world become a funeral pyre

Coming under friendly fire
Dieing from the friendly fire
Weapons set the night on fire, yeah

[ instrumental - fend off attackers ]

The time to hesitate is due
The hatred we inflame mounts higher
As now, one and all may lose
And our world become a place most dire

Coming under friendly fire
It ain't acting friendly fire
Fighting sets the night on fire

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a (B)liar
If I was to say to you
Casualties ain't getting higher

Coming under friendly fire
Dieing from the friendly fire

Fighting sets the night on fire
Far Right set the night on fire
"Mights right" set the night on fire
No Right to set the night on Fire

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( I wrote this one during Gulf War 2 when USAF
"cowboys on jollies" were taking out more UK troops
than were the Iraqui army)

Once was a man called Andrew Gilligan
To the tune of "There was an old man called Michael Finnigan"
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There once was a man named Andrew Gilligan,
Accused the fuhrer of a sinigan,
With statements broad but notes quite slimigan
Poor old Andrew Gilligan, Begin again.

There once was a man named Andrew Gilligan,
Threw Campbell into a spinigan
Against the beeb he'd have his winigan
Poor old Andrew Gilligan, Begin again.

There once was a man named Andrew Gilligan,
A whistleblower had a chat with him
His corpse sat up then lay back dinigan
Poor old Andrew Gilligan, Begin again.

There once was a man named Andrew Gilligan.
Broadly correct on dossier tinkering
But Hutton whitewashed span and spicigan
Poor old Andrew Gilligan, Begin again.

There once was a man named Andrew Gilligan.
Resigned and took it on his chinigan
But Dyke's out and he'll not be in again
Poor old Andrew Gilligan, Begin again.

There once was a man named Andrew Gilligan,
There's not much more for me to sing of him
The lies all come from number ten again
Poor old Andrew Gilligan, Begin again.
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