Blood and Oil Forever
By Phil Shannon
(Lyrics adapted from "Stars and Stripes Forever" by J.P. Sousa)
From the forests of Vietnam
to the deserts of Iraq
We will fight for good old Uncle Sam
we will pillage, loot and sack
We have liberated Panama
and Kuwait by the same means
We serve Wall Street and America
we're United States Marines
We bring napalm and B-52s
for their minerals and oil
We go shooting anywhere we choose
from rice field to sandy soil
In '54 we saved United Fruit
down in Guatemala
Gave the Reds the bullet and the boot
liberating Grenada
For Standard Oil our job has never ceased
we beat the Reds in Mexico
And today we're in the Middle East
we are hit-men for Texaco
All the world is ours by god-given right
all its wealth and human beings
We enforce it by the bullet's might
we're United States Marines
We make the world safe for free enterprise
we die for Exxon millionaires
We know that when a child or soldier dies
it's for those with Mobil shares
We are trained to kill and terrorise
all we're told ain't what it seems
We've been fed on politicians' lies
we're United States Marines