Dow Jones is a Trifle Blue

Tune: Harry Warren's "Nagasaki"

Dow Jones is a trifle blue;
There's only one thing to do:
Let the men in khaki
Bomb Iraq like Nagasaki—
It'll make the rogue Iraqi
Rue.

By raising the price of oil,
He's causing our blood to boil;
Let the men in khaki
Bomb Iraq like Nagasaki—
It'll make the rogue Iraqi
Rue.

He sends his rowdies
To spook the Saudis
And put Kuwaitis on ice;
He rattles sabres
At all the neighbors—
Saddam shakes
Oil sheiks
Down, for a price!

He's causing a market flux;
We're losing a buncha bux;
Let the men in khaki
Bomb Iraq like Nagasaki—
It'll make the rogue Iraqi
Rue.

Drop your diplomats
And your naval blockade,
'Cause they all add up
To a rodomontade;
When the chips are down, they're doubtful jokes—
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" is the watchword, folks.

His courting the hostage vote
Gets even Ghadaffi's goat;
Let the men in khaki
Bomb Iraq like Nagasaki—
It'll make the rogue Iraqi
Rue.

The way he perverts the truth
Out-Hitlers the Hitler Youth;
Let the men in khaki
Bomb Iraq like Nagasaki—
It'll make the rogue Iraqi
Rue.

(But don't be blinded
By our high-minded
Asseverations of ire—
We're merely Babbits
With petro-habits;
We must have
Oil to
Feed our desire!)

That Saddam Hussein's a nut—
We'll go in and kick some butt.
Let the men in khaki
Bomb Iraq like Nagasaki—
It'll make the rogue Iraqi
Rue.