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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Just for Rantburg - A Bit of Fun
2005-11-25
(With apologies to Mark Knopfler)

The Sultans of Swine

You get a shiv in the dark
And there’s 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 don’t ring

Outside the mosque you don’t 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 he’s strictly Islam, no Sufis got to cry or sing
An old tanbur is all he can afford
When he’s up on the minaret to do the muezzin thing

And Ali doesn’t mind if he’s kept behind the screen
He says his morning prayers, so it’s 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 ‘round on the corner
Dressed in djellebas and their slippers, curly toed
They don’t give a damn about any tombak playing band
It has no part of Islam’s 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
‘Insh’allah, goodnight now its time to go boom'
and his prayer contains just one more line
‘We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of swine’

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