Reply #56: Here are a couple of new chants that make for a nice change

[JohnyCanuck]

from the tired and worn out, Hey Hey Ho Ho bit.

See bottom paragraph (sung out like a US military style drill cadence).

Mike Ferner: 'Marines stretching movement: Protesting urban warfare in Toledo'

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For two hours late Friday night, as the Marines set up their weekend command post in (believe it or not) an abandoned center for selling blood plasma, 30 peace activists stood with banners, signs, photos, and "War," Goff's message and cadence chants alternating over the P.A. Negotiations with the Toledo police got us only as close as the opposite side of the street, so an artificial gulf kept us from reading soldiers' expressions or hearing their responses that would have only been whispered under doubtless orders against "fraternizing" with us. One of our band, chafed by the order not to use a public sidewalk on a public street, crossed the thoroughfare to make a point and was promptly arrested.

The next day a dozen activists returned with signs, photos, banners, "War," and a bullhorn for Goff's letter, ready to peacefully engage squads of Marines who had come to engage "enemies" in parking garages and alleys.

With the mobile "War" unit circling the blocks, broadcasting the song to the Marines, the activists on foot followed one detachment past the main library, singing out a whole list of VFP cadences.

The most familiar chant was: "Hey, hey Uncle Sam/We remember Viet Nam/We don't want your I-raq war/Peace is what we're marchin' for. Am I right or wrong (You're right!). Am I right or wrong? (You're right!)" But the most popular was: "Dubya's lies should make him choke/He must still be snortin' coke/Saddam's secret poison gas/Must be something Rumsfeld passed."

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