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History's Sad Song (Revised) throughout my life I've heard many a sad song relating to the lyrics that seemed to play too long way back during the Crusade where religious debt was paid by the bloodlust of so many could not ye God spare any as hundreds of thousands died over manmade religious pride these wars continue today justified by words we pray Oh, when the saints go marching in ....(Sang by the Kingston Trio) they hailed from every nation to defy the written proclamation prohibiting ownership of God's creation many fought with such bravery to continue the practice of slavery another man's misery has always been the key for the powers that be and who cares about equality when Kingdoms can be built for free A Change Is Gonna Come ........(Sam Cooke) but as I study history one thing has occurred to me there really isn't any change Hitlers, just go by different names as we remember the Holocaust Sodom and Gomorrah was never lost but found within the soul of man burnt crisp, the devil's plan Momma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys - Waylon Jennings everybody's got a gun buying ammo by the ton myths of old western days seem like broadway plays acted out in the streets a daily performance society repeats gunsmoke, and the ponderosa replaced by La Costra Nostra "Wake Up Everybody" by Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes John F. Kennedy died a shocked nation cried what many could never figure is if Oswald pulled the trigger while Marilyn slept in the grave Martin fought for the slave yes even hate was still around as Eldridge went underground Malcolm X was gunned down with bullets from the nation to ease Elijah's aggravation and the temptations sang "Cloud Nine" another Kennedy has died Ted needs a place to hide only not within the bottle nor behind the throttle congress opens its doors to pageboys and lobbyist whores but they did put a man on the moon right before Joplin sang her last tune who would have thought "me and bobby magee" would be over shadowed by the Manson Family the blind leading the blind, neither could see Jim Jones and the Guyana tragedy Even Earth, Wind, and Fire, "kept their head to the sky" praying for an end to a senseless war that no one knew what they were fighting for our "vietnam" seems up to date while nixon got caught up in watergate whitehouse rose "bushes"we love to hate Lennon left the beatles ill-willed never to "imagine" he'd be shot and killed and War Sang, "slipping into darkness", followed by "the world is a ghetto" Even "the greatest" shall soon fall but in defeat they stand tall unlike the berlin wall the thriller in manilla refused to be a killa as rap became the new wave and crack became the new crave along with video games just another war, with different names Teena Marie sang "Deja' Vu" Nerd Gates becomes the new Donald Trump while history gets taught by Forrest Gump a great poet died at the age of twenty-five though many claim Tupac is still alive and I saw Elvis and Bruce Lee too singing the blues with you know who then came the white bronco on the loose nobody could manuever like the Juice except maybe Bill when he said please a simple word that brought Monica to her knees and Snoop Doggy Dog sang, "Ain't nuttin' but a "G" thang baby Beepers became replaced by the cell phone on 9/11 no one could call home as war and mother nature ripped us a new ass even Martha joined the inmate class now she's out, but Oprah's still the queen sorry Latifah, you know what I mean the mother drowned her five children in a tub she got sent to a Psychiatric health club the ruling was it's a new sickness my head screws off from such thickness so many changes and hypocrisy I guess that's what they call democracy and Queen sang, "We are the Champions, of the World" throughout my life I've heard many a sad song relating to the lyrics that seemed to play too long Bob Shank
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