Friday, June 09, 2006

Pore Zarqawi's daid

From the Rodgers and Hammerhead Songbook comes this hymn to the late and (at least here) hardly lamented Mr. al-Zarqawi...
Curly:
Zarqawi's daid,
Pore Zarqawi's daid,
All gather 'round his cawfin now and cry
He had a heart of ice
And he wasn't very nice
I guess that's why the feller had to die.
Zarqawi's daid,
Pore Zarqawi's daid,
He's lookin' oh so peaceful and serene
Jud:
And serene!
Curly:
He's all laid out to rest
With his hands acrost his chest
And they got his blood-stained fingernails clean!
(Spoken)
Then the mullah'd get up and he'd say:
(Chanting)
Folks, we are gathered here to moan and groan over our brother Zarqawi, who got blowed up real good in his safehouse
(Spoken)
Then there'd be weepin' and wailin'... from some of those women. Then he'd say:
(Chanting)
Zarqawi was the most misunderstood man in this here territory. People used to think he was a mean ugly feller and they called him a dirty skunk and an ornery goat stealer
(Sung)
But the folks that really knowed him.
(Chant)
Knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore
(Sung)
There beat a heart as big as all outdoors
Jud:
As big as all outdoors.
Curly:
Zarqawi loved his feller man
Jud:
He loved his feller man
Curly (Spoken):
He loved the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. He loved the mice and the vermin in the barns, and he treated the rats like equals, which was right. And he loved little children. He loved everybody and everything in the whole world! Only he never let on, so nobody ever knowed it.
(Sung)
Zarqawi's Daid
Pore Zarqawi's daid
His friends'll weep and wail for miles around
Jud:
Miles Around!
Curly:
The daisies in the dell
will give out a different smell
Because Zarqawi's underneath the ground.
Jud:
Zarqawi's daid
A candle lights his haid
He's layin' in a cawfin made of wood
Curly:
Wood...
Jud:
And folks are feelin' sad
Cause they useter treat him bad
But now they know their friend is gone for good
Curly:
Good!
Both:
Zarqawi's Daid
A candle lights his haid!
Curly:
He's lookin' oh so purty and so nice
He looks like he's asleep,
It's a shame that he won't keep
But it's summer and we're running out of ice.
Both:
Zarqawi, Zarqawi.
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This footnote... Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is staging a hunger strike because he hasn't yet gotten his 72 virgins. Sources in the post-living world indicate the 72 will not be forthcoming.
"Ain't no virgins in hell," Curly said.