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oh say, can you see

by the dawn’s early night

the shiny roofs of the camps

concentrating the damned

oh say, can you see

the blonde tuft of fascism

on our heads

which so proudly you hailed

at the twilight’s last gleening

whose broad stick batters

black faces

brown faces

the faces you’ve damned

again and again

since the very beginning

o’er the ramparts watching

and shooting and jailing

them

and the rockets’ red glare

the bombs bursting over there

avenging a pale christ who never was

and waging war on drug users

you gave the drugs to

and the South Americas you haunt

and the other oil-rich lands

where our flag saves, invisible

o’er the lands of the once free

and the homes of the still brave

who riot in the streets for their homes

and who get shot and gassed and caged

who damn america along with the god

on whose neck this nation stands

with the tanks and the trumps

and the fanfare and the nice wyt folks

saluting the flag and the fury

signifying nothing but the will

to power and the 4th of julius caesars

forever and ever amen