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Tuesday, 11. March 2003
mld, March 11, 2003 at 8:51:00 AM CET

Iraq and Roll

I wan't going to blog about my visits to the Houston Rodeo this year. Hell, I've still got several hundred pics and a few concert reviews for last year sittin on the hard drive waiting to see the light of an internet day.

But some stuff is just too damn good not to mention.

Lynyrd Skynyrd had been scheduled, along with Jerry Jeff Walker, for tonight's show. However, Gary Rossington had to have heart surgery last week, so the rodeo called in Clint Black to sub for him.

Clint played a few of his standards, and then played "The Breeze" for all the Skynyrd fans. To help with that song, he called up his two brothers, Kevin and Brian, with whom he used to play back in the days before he hit the Big Time. I thought that was pretty cool, as so far as I know (and that's a bigass caveat) that's the first time they'd ever been on a stage together in about fifteen years. Clint's band has a few former rockers in it (Jake, his bassist, is a great jazz and rock player, and Hayden smokes on guitar) so they did a truly good job with the tune.

I'm thinkin' to myself, that song alone made me glad I came.

Then Clint drops this bomb...

He says that he'd been fortunate enough to have been spending some time entertaining our troops, and after hanging around them for a while, just a few days ago, he and Hayden had finished writing a new song, and they were now going to play it for us. Oh, and by the way, you could download it for free. He said it was going to be free, like America. And would we mind calling the local country radio stations and ask them to play it.

It's called "Iraq and Roll"

It will become a number one song on the country charts, the unofficial anthem of our combat troops in the Middle East. I garan-dam-tee it. (I am sometimes wrong, but never uncertain :-)

I dl'd it tonight, then spent a half hour transcribing the lyrics, which follow:

You can wave your signs in protest Against America takin' a stand. The stands America's taken Are the reason that you can. If everyone would go for peace, There'd be no need for war, But we can't ignore the Devil, He'll keep coming back for more.

Some see this in black and white, Others only gray. We're not beggin' for a fight, No matter what they say. We have a resolution That should put them all to shame. It's a different kind of deadline When I'm callin' the game.

Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll. I'm back, and I'm a high-tech GI Joe. I pray for peace, prepare for war, And I never will forget. There's no price too high for freedom, So be careful where you tread.

Now, this terror isn't man-to-man, They can be no more than cowards. If they won't show us their weapons, We might have to show them ours. Now, it might be a smart bomb They find stupid people too. If you stand with the likes of Saddam One just might find you.

Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll I'm back, and I'm a high-tech GI Joe. I got infrared, I got GPS I got that good ol' fashioned lead. There's no price too high for freedom, So be careful where you tread.

Now, you can come along, Or you can stay behind, Or you can get out of the way. But our troops take out the garbage For the good ol' USA.

Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll (in the USA) Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll (talkin' bout the USA) Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll (in the USA) Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll (talkin' bout the USA) Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll (in the USA)

The song flat kicks ass.

UPDATE 3-15-2003: They've finally got the lyrics up on Clint's site. However, the transcription is wrong, with several glaring discrepancies between the song and the published lyrics.

As an example, compare the official version of this line:

"I GOT INFRARED, GPS AND GOOD OLD FASHIONED LEAD"

(And what's up with the SHOUTING, anyway?)

This is clearly wrong. I stand by my version:

"I got infrared, I got GPS I got that good ol' fashioned lead."

Have I ever mentioned I can be a bit pedantic?


 

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