The Waterboys – Kinkys History Lesson (Guitar)

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Dear Kinky Friedman, I read what you wrote

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Neville Chamberlain surrender monkeys - yup, that was your quote

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Well, we all say stupid things sometimes, so here with my blessing

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Kinky Friedman this is your history lesson

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Chamberlain declared war, on the 3rd of September

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The US wasn't involved, as I remember

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And after Poland fell, then Belgium and France

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Britain stood alone with barely a chance

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We faced Hitler down; he unleashed the blitz

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A hundred nine elevens that left London in bits

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But we never caved in, Britain never surrendered

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No petition for peace, Kinky, was ever fuckin' tendered

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Oh Kinky Friedman

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Dude quit your messin'

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And listen up good

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This is your history lesson

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Roosevelt helped us, with armaments and food

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His vision was sure, and his policy good

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He'd have brought the USA, into the war on our side

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But the isolationists, had both his hands tied

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Stay out, Stay Out was your public's demand

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Till the Japs hit Pearl Harbour, and that forced your hand

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Then your boys fought like lions but so the hell did ours

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Only an asshole, Kinky, could call the British cowards

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Oh Kinky Friedman

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Take some quiet time processing

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These words of mine

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Your history lesson

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And here's a casualty count for you to muse upon, man

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Military personnel and civilians killed in the theatre of world war two

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USA: four hundred and nineteen thousand and four hundred

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Great Britain: four hundred and fifty thousand and nine hundred

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And just to keep perspective

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USSR: twenty-seven million... or thereabouts

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Yeah war is no joke

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And my friend you misspoke

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Or so I'm guessin'

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But take this well, Buddy

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And may it ease your soul

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Kinky Friedman this has been

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Your history lesson