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The Song of the Star-Spangled Sewage Workers

Submitted by Edna Sweetlove on Mon, 2019-12-16 19:28

O, say can't you smell in the morning's delight
What failed to get flushed, thus the toilet needs cleaning?
Huge turds and bright piss, such a horrible sight,
Out of bodies fast pumped with odours demeaning?

Sewage workers so brave, the shit wagon driving
Will speed through the night to cleanse toilets for you;
How grateful we are for their generous striving
To cleanse the home of the free from the stench of stale poo.
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Structured: Western

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As is obvious to even the dullest of readers, this is a parody of the first verse of the "Star Spangled Banner", the USA national anthem which has quite a good tune (it was actually an English drinking song) but which has some truly banal (and not very grammatical, to boot) words as follows:- Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light / What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? / Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru (SIC!) the perilous fight /, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? / And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. / Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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