GEORGE W'S DREAM - Original
words and music by Woodrow (Woodie) Guthrie
Parody
lyrics by bil and Bobbie Scher, 2002
George
dreamed a dream in bed and this is what he said,
"I need a victory o'er Saddam's trickery.
It puts me in a snit. I'm having a hissy fit.
His land was made for Dick and me."
"Don't
care what Colin Powell might say.
'Cause Saddam ticks me off in a big-time way.
My economy is slumping, his oil's still pumping.
His land was made for Dick and me."
Chorus:
"His
land is our land, his land is my land,
From the Tigris River (alternate: mountains
of Kurdistan) to the desert flat (dry) land,
From the mosques of Bagdad to the Gulf coast
waters,
His land was made for Dick and me."
"As
I was driven in an armored transport,
I saw beyond me a huge palace fort.
I saw below me oil wells A to Z.
His land was made for Dick and me."
"We
drove our tanks and (we) flew our airplanes
O'er the sparkling sand of her diamond deserts
And all around me, oil wells A to Z.
His land belongs to Dick and me."
"I've
roamed and rambled and I followed my foot steps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me, a voice was sounding,
'His land was made for Dick and me.' "
(All
together now:) "His land belongs to Dick and
me."
Native
American Indian version by Unknown (at least
by me).
This
land is your land. This land was my land.
Before we sold you Manhattan Island.
You pushed our nations to the reservations.
This land was stole from me by you.