The Baghdad Dream - Steve Forbert

Strange Names and New Sensations

The Baghdad Dream

It’s enough to make you scream

What a well mismanaged scheme

Mr. Rumsfeld calls the shots

And we all get what we’ve got

Oh, the Baghdad dream

It’s enough to make you ill

As it goes the way it will

Can you calculate the cost?

What’s been gained and what’s been lost

Oh, the Baghdad Dream

Would you risk your life to vote in a burka or a coat?

Would ya?

Take the traffic off the road so a car bomb don’t explode in the…

Is your armor qualified to protect you while you ride down the…

Is there hope in all of this?

Can Iraqis co-exist in the…

Is it rotten to the core?

Is there nothing else but more of the…

Do we hafta stay and stay?

Can we ever get away from the…

Is it freedom we’ve increased or a madder Middle East?

What the…

Mr. Bush can’t show remorse, he can only stay the course of his…

Stick a sticker on your car for the soldier off at war in the…

It’s a holiday at home as they soldier on and on in the…

What a long November with the leaves all fallen down

What a cold December with the snowflakes on the ground

What a blue, blue Christmas in a decorated town

What a sad, old New Year when your loved one ain’t around

Oh, the Baghdad Dream

Oh, the Baghdad Dream

Oh, the Baghdad Dream