How Did We Lose

       How did we lose
          the Straits of Hormuz
       We listened to Saudi Arabia

        A country all sand
           struck up the band
        ‘Twas jealous of Mesopotamia*




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         *Mesopotamia, today Iran and Iraq, 
         was home to the Tigris and Euphrates 
         Rivers, through which flowed interna-
         tional commerce back then.
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