the olive ream

BLAIR’S FAREWELL

May 12th, 2007 | Category: Britain, Iraq, Politics, UK, US

Sung to the tune of My Way

And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, is only Bush, that much is clear,
We’re both war criminals, of that I’m certain.

I’ve lived a life, full of misdeeds,
Left trails of dead bodies on Iraqi highways,
And more, much more than this,
I screwed up My Way.

Regrets? I should have so many,
But then again, I can’t recall to mention
I did what I was told by Bush
And saw it through without exception
The US planned each charted course
each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this,
I still claimed it My Way.

Yes all the time, I’m sure you knew
When we bit off, more than we could chew
But through it all, as was our goal
We ate it up and swallowed whole
The sovereign rights of an entire nation
And did it Our Way.

I’ve loved kissing Bush’s arse,
I’ve laughed and hardly cried,
I’ve had my fill, my share of brown nosing
and now as sanity subsides
I find it all so amusing
to think I did all that
and may I say not in a shy way

Oh no, oh no not me
I did it My Way

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not usurping another country’s oil reserves, then he has naught.
Possessed by avarice, one hardly feels,
Which makes it easy for the one who steals.
The record shows
Iraqis took the blows -
All because I did it my way!

10 Comments so far

  1. jammie May 13th, 2007 2:16 am

    long time. hope all well :)
    thanks for dropping by- just pray everything stabilizes soon. strike again tomm :(

  2. Zakintosh May 13th, 2007 3:20 am

    hahahahahahah … how about getting someone to record this? i bet you it’ll sell … and even if it’s just an amateurish attempt it can still be youTubed

  3. Sidhusaaheb May 13th, 2007 1:02 pm

    He’s clever enough to leave on his own, before actually being thrown out.

  4. Anna May 15th, 2007 5:11 pm

    Could you re-write this when George B. finally leaves office? Think of all the extra verses that would be needed! All so very funny, yet so very sad.

  5. Raza Rumi May 15th, 2007 11:12 pm

    Funny, sad and real- great stuff. Your satirical expression is getting honed with each post.

    By the way, why does the top portion of your home page appear blank? Is that a design innovation or a glitch? Just being curious here….

  6. the olive ream May 15th, 2007 11:52 pm

    Raza:
    It is the demons of wordpress that are at fault here. Apparently, in some versions of the IE browser, the home page appears like the foreign policy of the Bush Administration; totally screwed up.

    Apologies for that but I’d be buggered if I can fix it - tried everything but nothing works. Perhaps it is time for a new theme for the blog…if I can only get my procrastinating arse to cooperate.

  7. Jaded May 16th, 2007 6:05 am

    sheer bloody genius… even sinatra didn’t have it this good… he woulda made millions…

  8. sabizak May 17th, 2007 3:38 am

    hehehe…..really good one, I feel like singing it at the top of my lungs outside 10 Downing.

  9. in2deep May 18th, 2007 9:29 am

    it’s always a pleasure to read your posts. well done!:)

  10. xill-e-ilahi May 22nd, 2007 9:38 am

    ***bows down***

    hilarious! :) left me in stitches. i wish someone would record an audio clip and play it outside 10 downing on june 27.

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