In my
AP Government class, we had to write a song to the tune of any well known
Christmas song. The
requirement was that it had to have at least five
current events in it, from the past
ten years.
To the tune of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen:
In
August nineteen-ninety-one
The
USSR fell
After a bust
soviet coup
All of Russia was well
Bicameral parliament was established in
Moscow
A-and
Boris Yeltsin drank
Smirnoff as well.
Down in
Southern Africa
Apartheid is destroyed
No one
discriminates against
The dark-skinned
little boys
The
Live-Aid concert helped so much, we thank you
Queen,
U2
A-and
Mandela is free from
jail, woo hoo.
In nineteen-ninety, ninety-one
The
army went to
war
Saddam attacked
Kuwait because
His life became a
bore
Schwartzkoff sent tanks to bomb the ranks of
turban-clad arabs
While
Quayle learned to count from
one to
four
The
Dow Jones industrial
Average reached
ten thousand
Mercedes Benz for all the guys
And
Tiffany's for girls
The
biotech and
dot-com stocks made many people rich
But the
IRS takes it all,
gee that's rich.
In
Yugoslavia ethnic
Cleansing was policy
By
President Milosevic
But now where can he be?
Deposed and
incarcerated, his life just
sucks a lot
It's too bad that they will not
let him smoke pot
Believe it or not, it all goes with the tune.