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These are posts from Juniors at Steamboat Springs High School

The poems were written during our unit on Imperialism in the Middle East - Enjoy!

Friday, December 18, 2009

We Want It Our Way: An Israeli Story- Written by Chris Barounos- Performed by Chris Barounos and Cole Pollard

Chris: Yeahahha… The Jews are Liars

Cole: Palestinians start fires

Chris: I hate when you say, we want it our way.

Chris: That we blew ourselves apart

Cole: That you, have ice for hearts

Chris: But lets make a new day, come join in on our way

Cole: Tell me why

Chris: we’re fighting over desert rock

Cole: Tell me why

Chris: We can’t start over and not give a fock.

Cole: Tell me why

Chris: Tell you what, it’s not too late

Chris: So let’s make a new day

Cole: Come join our forces

Chris: Come ride our horses

Together: Decide! It’s not too late, and we’ll have it our way.

Cole: Come say Hi!

Chris: To my neighbor named Morgetai

Cole: Say good-bye!

Chris: To a regime sitting so high.

Cole: Come and buy

Chris: Our olives and our F18’s

Together: We’ll have it our way!

Cole: Now I can see that as long as we live, we’ll have some place to be.

Chris: yeahhahh

Chris: We’ll rename in Canaan, we want you to vote

Together: And you’ll be a part of me!

Chris: We’ll give you, education.

Cole: To be a great nation.

Chris: We are

Cole: WE are

Chris: We are

Cole: We are!

Chris: A new Nation! You’ll have social security.

Cole: You won’t have terror emergencies!

Chris: We’ll have western Twinkies.

Together: We’ll have it our way!

Cole: Tell you what!

Chris: We’ll bomb some place like Paraguay

Cole: Tell you what!

Chris: We’ll explore some place like Mercury

Cole: Tell you what!

Chris: Soon you’ll hear the U.S. say..

Cole: We want it their way.

Cole: Tell me why!

Chris: Ain’t nothin but a party

Cole: tell me why!

Chris: Ain’t nuthin but a mistake.

Cole: Tell me why

Chris: I’m gonna soon hear you say..

Together: We have it our way!

1 comment:

  1. Chris, it was fun to watch you two perform this piece for the class! I like the "we'll have western twinkies" part...made me laugh. But you also include a serious message about the problems that the Israelis and Palestinians face. Nice work.

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