Talking Cuban Crisis
It was just a little while ago I glued my ears to the radi
The announcer was sayin' we'd better bewar
A crisis was hanging - a wave from the ai
crawlin' on the groun
swimmin' in the se
headin' for m
Well, I didn't know if I was for or agin' i
He was yellin' and screamin' a mile a minut
Well, he said "Here comes the Presiden
but first this word from Pepsoden
Have whiter teet
Have cleaner breat
When you're facin' nuclear death"
And then President John began to spea
And I knew right away he wouldn't be wea
Well, he said he'd seen some missile base
And terrible smiles on Cuban face
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carryin' land reform too fa
Giving land to the USS
Well, he said we mustn't be afrai
We're settin' up a little blockad
Put our ships along the Cuban shore
And if the Russian bear yells and roars
We'll let him have i
From Turkey and Greece, Formosa and Spai
The peaceful West European Plai
From Alaska and Greenland we'll use our mean
And twenty thousand submarine
We're gonna teach the Russians a lesso
For trying to upset the balance of powe
Now most Americans stood behin
The President and his military mind
But me, I stood behind a ba
Dreamin' of a spaceship getaway ca
Head for mar
Any other planet that has bar
Like Gerde's Folk Cit
Yes, it seemed the President's stand was strong and plai
But some Republicans was a-goin' insan
And they still ar
They said our plan was just too mil
Spare the rod and spoil the chil
Let's sink Cuba into the se
And give 'em back democrac
Under the wate
Well, the deadline was set for ten o'cloc
For a cold war it was a-gettin' ho
Well, the Russians tried, the Russians faile
Homeward bound those missiles saile
Mr. Khruschev said, "Better Red than dead."
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