LAMENT for ANWR...and the rest of the planet | new parody!

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND
(With deep apologies to Woody Guthrie)

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND, BUT NOW IT'S OUR LAND
YOUR PRISTINE MOUNTAINS, WE'LL REDUCE TO RUBBLE
AS WE CLEAR-CUT FORESTS, AND POLLUTE YOUR WATER
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

WE ONLY TALK TO THE K STREET PAID SHILLS
AND NEVER LOOK AT PROTESTORS' HANDBILLS
WHAT'S ONE MORE SPECIE? HERE COMES THE RAPTURE!
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND, BUT NOW IT'S OUR LAND
YOUR PRISTINE MOUNTAINS, WE'LL REDUCE TO RUBBLE
AS WE CLEAR-CUT FORESTS, AND POLLUTE YOUR WATER
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

WE'VE LIED AND SLANDERED AND WE VOTE IN LOCKSTEP
AND WE WON'T ADMIT TO A SINGLE MISSTEP
THE RICH AROUND US, THEIR VOICES ARE SOARING:
YOUR LAND IS MADE FOR US TO TAKE

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND, BUT NOW IT'S OUR LAND
YOUR PRISTINE MOUNTAINS, WE'LL REDUCE TO RUBBLE
AS WE CLEAR-CUT FORESTS, AND POLLUTE YOUR WATER
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

WE'VE MORE AMBITION THAN JUST THIS NATION
SO FREEDOM'S MARCHING AND TYRANTS ARE FALLING
IF WE CALL THEM EVIL, WE JUST WANT THEIR OIL
THEIR LANDS ARE THERE FOR US TO OWN

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND, BUT NOW IT'S OUR LAND
YOUR TOWNS AND CITIES, SHOCK 'N AWED TO RUINS
AS WE BUILD NEW BASES, WHILE WE FAKE ELECTIONS
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

WE SPIN THE GLOBE AND PICK A NEW QUAGMIRE
INTO THE QUAGMIRE, WE SEND THE YOUNG MEN
WITH THE OBSCENE PROFITS, WE KEEP OUR OWN SAFE
YOUR LIFE IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND, BUT NOW IT'S OUR LAND
YOUR TOWNS AND CITIES, SHOCK 'N AWED TO RUINS
AS WE BUILD NEW BASES, WHILE WE FAKE ELECTIONS
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHO RUNS THINGS
KNOW WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK
YOU MUST SHOP AT WAL-MART
AND EAT A BIG MAC
WEAR YELLOW RIBBONS
WHILE WE STEAL MILLIONS
YOUR LAND WAS THERE FOR US TO TAKE

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND, BUT NOW IT'S OUR LAND
YOUR PRISTINE MOUNTAINS, WE'LL REDUCE TO RUBBLE
AS WE CLEAR-CUT FORESTS, AND POLLUTE YOUR WATER
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

THAT LAND WAS YOUR LAND, BUT NOW IT'S OUR LAND
YOUR TOWNS AND CITIES, SHOCK 'N AWED TO RUINS
AS WE BUILD NEW BASES, WHILE WE FAKE ELECTIONS
YOUR LAND IS UNDER OUR CONTROL

The ecological system will likely be further damaged, but what the hell. We've gots sum oil.

hmmm...

and yet so damn scary.

sometimes ya gotta (try to) laugh to (try to) keep from crying....

at least we still have that.

from my cold dead hands... I will continue to ridicule!

NT

I just listened to an interview with a Gwich'in (the people who will be displaced due to ANWR drilling) and was in tears. Your prose to this tragedy is an honorable tribute to them.

If you are interested in the interview it can be heard here:
http://server.wnur.org/thisishell/archive/20010901gemmill.ram

'prose'?

I am lucky when I can string together a complete sentence which conveys a complete thought. But that fault doesn't stop me from appreciating good writing of others such as yourself.

that's all I was saying. still glad you liked it!

coming next? ORWELLIAN WORLD (to the tune of "Material Girl")

at you but I think the flacid populace might ruin him.

A better response to the ANWR vote than mine, which has been black dispair. Nothing is sacred. Nothing.

black humor.

it's that, or madness.