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Just for Rantburg - A Bit of Fun
(With apologies to Mark Knopfler)The Sultans of Swine You get a shiv in the dark And thereâs shrapnel in the park, but meantime South of the Euphrates, Iraqi cops hold everything Bands of Sunnis blowing IEDs at noon time You feel all right if your ears donât ring Outside the mosque you donât see too many faces Shouting out in pain when al Jazeera goes down Partitioning in so many places Not many minarets can make that sound Way on down south, way on down south, Basra town You check out setar George, he shakes all the gourds Mind heâs strictly Islam, no Sufis got to cry or sing An old tanbur is all he can afford When heâs up on the minaret to do the muezzin thing And Ali doesnât mind if heâs kept behind the screen He says his morning prayers, so itâs all right He can call the adhan, and still toe the line Praying it up on Friday night We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of swine And a bunch of young boomers crowding âround on the corner Dressed in djellebas and their slippers, curly toed They donât give a damn about any tombak playing band It has no part of Islamâs seal And the Sultans, and the Sultans they squeal And the imam he sits up tall in the prayer room And says at last just as the muezzin whines âInshâallah, goodnight now its time to go boom' and his prayer contains just one more line âWe are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of swineâ Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-25 |
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