Gun shots ring out in the Bagdad night
\nEnter GI Joe in the Palace hall.
\nHe sees the Iraqis in a pool of blood,
\nCries out, praise god, we killed them all!
\nHere comes the story of Saddam Hussein,
\nThe man the The Great Satan came to blame
\nFor somethin that he never done.
\nHanged in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
\nThe champion of the world.<\/p>\n
Three bodies lyin there does GI see
\nAnd another man named Musta, movin around mysteriously.
\nThats the way we do it, he says, and he throws a grenade
\nWe are robbin your country, I hope you understand.
\nAnd we aint leavin, he says, and he stops
\nIts a hard job being here like we’re your cops.
\nAnd forever wer’re gonna be your cops
\nAnd they arrive on the scene with IEDs flashin
\nIn the hot bagdad night.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
\nAchmed and a couple of friends are drivin around.
\nOwner of ‘best taxi driver of Bagdad’ crown
\nHad no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
\nWhen GIs pulled him over to the side of the road
\nJust like the time before and the time before that.
\nIn Bagdad thats just the way things go.
\nIf youre Iraqi you might as well not show up on the street
\nless you wanna draw the heat.<\/p>\n
Achmed had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
\nHim and Jamal were just out drivin around
\nHe said, I saw two men runnin out, they looked like terrorists
\nThey jumped into a white car clenching their fists.
\nAnd miss GI just shook her head.
\nShe said, wait a minute, boys, these ones aint dead
\nSo they shot them there for all to see
\nAnd though these two could hardly more innocent be
\nThey told all that they may have been guilty men.<\/p>\n
Four in the mornin and they haul Rashid in,
\nTake him to Abu Ghraib and they bring him downstairs.
\nLyndie looks out through one open eye
\nPoints, glad you brought him in boys! he ready to die?
\nYes, heres the story of Saddam Hussein,
\nThe man the The Great Satan came to blame
\nFor somethin that he never done.
\nHanged in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
\nThe champion of the world.<\/p>\n
Four months later, Bhagdad is in flame,
\nChavez in south america, fightin for his name
\nWhile Haliburton still in the robbery game
\nJihadi are puttin the screws to GI, lookin for somebody to blame.
\nRemember that murder called ‘911’?
\nRemember the man who they said got it done?
\nYou think he’d like to play ball with the law?
\nThink it might-a been that phantom that you saw in Pakistan?
\nJust you forget the name of that man.<\/p>\n
Dumb Joe Sixpack said, Im really not sure.
\nUncle Sam said, a poor boy like you could use a break
\nYou just dont get it, you dont know what’s at stake
\nNow you dont wanta have to pay five bucks a gallon.
\nYoull be doin society a favor.
\nThat sonofabitch is brave and gettin braver.
\nWe want to put his ass in stir
\nWe want to pin this nukular gig on him
\nHe aint no gentleman jim.<\/p>\n
Saddam could take a man out with just one punch
\nBut he never did like to talk about it all that much.
\nIts my work, hed say, and I do it for play
\nAnd when its over Id just as soon go on my way
\nUp to some paradise
\nWhere the trout streams flow and the air is nice
\nAnd ride a virgin along a trail.
\nBut then they took him to the jailhouse
\nWhere they try to turn a man into a mouse.<\/p>\n
All of Saddam’s cards were marked in advance
\nThe trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
\nThe judge made Saddam’s witnesses drunkards from the slums
\nTo the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
\nAnd to the Arab folks he was just a crazy nigger.
\nNot one doubted that he coulda pulled the trigger.
\nAnd though they could not produce the gun,
\nThe judge said he was the one who did the deed
\nAnd the all-white military jury agreed.<\/p>\n
Saddam Hussein was falsely tried.
\nThe crime was mass murder, guess who testified?
\nOnly his enemies and they both baldly lied
\nAnd the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
\nHow can the life of such a man
\nBe in the palm of Uncle Sam’s hand?
\nTo see him obviously framed
\nCouldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to be from a land
\nWhere justice is a game.<\/p>\n
Now USUK criminals in their coats and their ties
\nAre free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
\nWhile Saddam got hung in a ten-foot cell
\nAn innocent man in a living hell.
\nThats the story of Saddam Hussein,
\nBut it wont be over till they clear his name
\nAnd leave the land he was from.
\nHanged in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
\nThe champion of the world.<\/p>\n