A Comic Song About Mideast Conflicts

By

David Gottfried

Some time ago, I read that Yasir Arafat’s wife lived in Paris while Yasir lived in the Mideast.  (Yasir died quite a while ago,.) This immediately reminded me of the situation comedy “Green Acres,”  a big hit among elementary school children in the Sixties.  In Green Acres, a New York lawyer moves to a ramshackle farmhouse because he wants to get back to the land and pursue a wholesome occupation, farming.   His wife, played by Eva Gabor, is resolutely in love with the delights and dainty pleasures of her manicured, Manhattan life.  

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To be sung to the tune of the theme song of the situation comedy “Green Acres”:

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Suha Arafat sings:

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I want to live in Paris, France

I need to go to every dance

I am a woman oh so chic

Marvel at my Arab-French mystique

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Yasir Arafat sings:

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I wage war in the Wild West

At mayhem, I‘m the very best

I’m king of all the terrorists

Keep Paris and its polemicists

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Suha Arafat:

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I hate Islamic laws on food

They put me in a foul mood

I want to eat some crème brulee

Don fine minks and waltz and sashay

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Yasir Arafat:

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Oh Suha, I do understand

You require a decadent land

Something apt for a stately queen

Living rich and really quite obscene

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Suha Arafat:

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Send me money, Hubbie Arafat

Big fat checks that show some tact

I must indulge in luxury

Being a bitch is my destiny

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The shows

The blows

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Jihad

Pernod

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Yasir sings:

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You are my wife

Suha sings:

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Goodbye Paris life

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They both sing:

Ramallah we are here

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Copyright 2004 David Gottfried