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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