The Ode of Will He Joe?

A former editor of Tikkun finally gets....I suppose it is better to wake up when the knife is at the throat, than never wake at all.

"I Ain’t Kumbaying Any More (A Former Pacifist’s Lament)
(With due credit to Phil Ochs for the original)

Oh I marched to the protest of the Iraq war
With Cindy Sheehan and fat pig Michael Moore
The insurgents kept on growing
And our soldiers’ blood started flowing
So I ain’t Kumbaying anymore

For I’ve borne my share of peace signs
At a thousand different sites
I protested the Viet Nam War
I heard John Kerry lying
While his fellow vets were dying
But I ain’t Kumbaying anymore

It’s always the Left that opposes the war
And then even more young men fall
To turn our backs and run when we drop the sabre and the gun
Is to risk losing one and all

For I called our men baby killers when they came home
from the bloody Viet Nam War
That’s how I knifed my brother
And so many others
So I ain’t Kumbaying anymore

For I marched against the battles of the Iraqi trench
In a war that should have ended all wars
Saddam must have killed a million men
And I didn’t give a damn back then
But I ain’t Kumbaying anymore

It’s always the Left that opposes the war
And then even more young men fall
To turn our backs and run when we drop the sabre and the gun
Is to risk losing one and all

Now North Korea and Iran are putting missiles in the sky
To bring the atomic flash and roar
I have seen the Towers burning
So I am finally learning
Not to sing “Kumbaya” any more

Now the radical Left is screaming to impeach the President,
While terrorists are invading our own shores,
I called it “hate” and “militarism”
But now I call it “Reason”
And I ain’t Kumbaying any more. "