Snakes and Snipers -

We stood for what we know is right

We stood against the red star’s might

We won the fight upon the battlefield

But then the politicians came and played a silent alien game

They said that we should bend and we should yield

And the snakes and snipers plagued us in the bush

But they couldn’t ever beat us with the sword

Now the snakes and snipers hide behind the pen

And try to get us with the written word

They say the pen is bold and free

And mightier than the sword could be

But puppets are the scribes that write the play

Those puppets do not know their lot

They’ve never heard an angry shot

And only write to earn a weekly pay

And the snakes and snipers plagued us in the bush

But they couldn’t ever beat us with the sword

Now the snakes and snipers hide behind the pen

And try to get us with the written word

So write your periodicals, Sunday penny horribles

And keep on sniping at us from afar

It takes much more than that to keep a troopie from his beauty sleep

Be proud of what we did and what we are

And the snakes and snipers plagued us in the bush

But they couldn’t ever beat us with the sword

Now the snakes and snipers hide behind the pen

And try to get us with the written word