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Torture Song
Lyrics © 2013 Kay Thode
- Tune
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
- Written by
- Kay Thode
- Gaggle
- Seattle
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SING IT to the tune of Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Torture was the “in thing” then,
No habeas corpus,
Waterboarding, shocks and sha-ame
Rendition, too.
Where has our democracy gone?
Smashed by our last president.
Why don’t we end all this?
We must indict them all!
Torture is still in the news,
Cheney says it worked for us.
Waterboarding, shocks, and sha-ame,
Rendition too.
Where has our democracy gone?
Smashed by our last president!
Why don’t we end all this?
We must indict them all!
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Written by
Kay Thode
For the
Seattle Gaggle
Free to sing, share, and print with credit to Kay Thode and the Seattle Raging Grannies. Not for sale. raginggrannies.org