The demonstrations against the war in Iraq at it's 4th anniversary since March 2003 were inspiring if poorly covered by the corrupt and complicit corporate media. In April 2003 there was a demo in DC just after the so called "shock and awe" themed bombing of Bagdad by the Bush Gangsters. My brother and I went to that demo and we saw someone with a sign that said, "There is a cure for Mad Cowboy Disease". We turned to each other and said, "SONG !!!" A song by that title was written in the following days and became the lead-off song on my latest CD called Broadsides & Retrospectives. That title came from looking back and looking forward and from the Broadside Balladeer song about Phil Ochs and his songs in Broadside, the National Topical Song Magazine. That's all covered in previous blogs if you should want to check the lyrics out, the article on Phil's FBI article, or a short story about meeting him. Meanwhile, I hope that you find this song both cartoon humorous and bloody serious! By the way European readers can buy the 19 song CD, Broadsides & Retrospectives, at Turbo Music becaise they have an arrangement with CD Baby:
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Without further adieu, here are the words to the song born out of the Bush-Cheney-Powell WMD lies that led to the war on Iraq. The chords remain the same throughout should you want to cover or play along with this song:
Am C D F / Am C E E / Am C D F / Am C E E7
Mad Cowboy Disease
By Vic Sadot
Released on Crazy Planet Records on the
Broadsides & Retrospectives CD in 2005
You know it's kind o' Sci-Fi what's happening today…
A Zombie epidemic has hit the USA…
You get it through your TV…Listen well, I'll tell you how…
It attacks you in the brain like contaminated cow!
It's just like in the movie…"Night of the Living Dead"
One day when you wake up… you're cracked up in the head!!!
It happens when you fall asleep in front of your TV's…
And when you start believin' bull; You got… "Mad Cowboy Disease"!
Chorus:
Mad Cowboy Disease! …Mad Cowboy Disease!
You won't find them funny when they go on killin' sprees…
Mad Cowboy Disease! …Mad Cowboy Disease!
Please put 'em all in padded cells, and throw away the keys!
The symptoms of "Mad Cowboy" can lead to travesties…
Like lying just to justify… bombing who you please…
"MCD" can be fatal…it can make you paranoid…
It can make you maladjusted… a person to avoid!
You rave against the "terrorists"…then murder like they do…
You even claim the peace-niks are terrorizing you!
Your old friends and allies, you see as enemies…
It's mighty freakin' dangerous… "Mad Cowboy Disease"!
Chorus
We don't know how they caught it, but we have some theories…
On how they got infected with "Mad Cowboy Disease"…
It happened very early on… when they first occupied…
Positions in the government…and from the first they lied!
It must have been the dinner of… the Inaugeration Ball…
They must have had some "mad cow"… in the menu after all…
It might a' been the burgers… or the fine filet mignon!!!
But there ain't no doubt about it… you can see their minds are gone!
Come gather round, good people; we need to find the cure…
It's such a nasty problem; it's one we can't ignore…
The crew that runs the White House; They've got this dread disease!
You see it in the madness of their greedy policies!
"Mad Cowboy" is contagious, but there are immunities…
One of them's as simple as turning off TV's…
And talkin' with your neighbors…in your communities…
There's really only one cure for "Mad Cowboy Disease"!
Chorus
There are no easy answers…no simple remedies…
To something as deranging as "Mad Cowboy Disease"
You'll notice that they're vicious… outing names like rabid dogs!
Turnin' on their own when they speak truth to power hogs!
Mad Cowboys lust for violence…and killing like a fiend!
They're very "anti-social"…They should be quarantined!
But we should be "compassionate"… give them some place to go…
Perhaps a ranch in Texas if it's walled around, you know…
Chorus:
Mad Cowboy Disease! …Mad Cowboy Disease!
You won't find them funny when they go on killin' sprees…
Mad Cowboy Disease! …Mad Cowboy Disease!
Please put 'em all in padded cells, and throw away the keys!
And put "An End To Evil"… Mad Cowboy Disease!
© 2004 Victor René Sadot / BMI / Orbian Love Music
Written Jan 10, 2004
Released on Crazy Planet Records on the
Broadsides & Retrospectives CD:
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