Burning flag bad juju
booga, booga!
Burning the flag is awful bad
Booga, booga
It makes our Republicans awful mad
Booga booga
So Republicans are awful glad
Booga booga
To pass a law to make flag burners awful sad
Booga booga
Burning flag bad juju.
Burning flag make hair fall out and cause zits.
Burning flag make laboratory mice die
Burning flag not recommended by four out of five dentists
Burning flag will tip over your trash cans and make your dog pregnant
Burning flag not what Ronald Reagan had in mind
Burning flag will cause downturn in tech sector, resulting in disappointing profit reports for the second quarter of the year.
Burning flag will mean AFL team wins the Super Bowl
Burning flag will make greasy foreigners snigger at America
Burning flag caused us to lose Vietnam
Burning flag causes third trimester abortions
Burning flag caused Bill Buckner to bobble that grounder to first
Burning flag leading cause of lost luggage, heartbreak of psoriasis, failed belts in Ford F-150s, lost socks in laundry
Burning flag caused power shortage in California
Burning flag caused power surplus in California
Burning flag caused California
Burning flag pisses Jesus off, major league
Burning flag caused Rome to fall, cleaned Sparta’s clock
Burning flag promises full taste despite low tar and nicotine
Burning flag is why Packard-Bell Computers are all fucked up
Burning flag shot John Lennon
Burning flag shot Martin Luther King
Burning flag shot John Kennedy
Burning flag shot Robert Kennedy
Burning flag missed FDR
Burning flag designed 1040-S
Burning flag introduced the new Coke
Burning flag inspired the Edsel grille
Burning flag explains why Dennis Rodman
Burning flag makes me write bad poetry
Burning flag bad, bad juju
You say you wanna be an Ummerrikin, kid? Well, here’s what you gotta do!
You gotta drop all that national symbol crap. Ummerrikins don’t believe in idolitry. We figure that all that stuff like crowns and cathedrals and red roses and so on that people fight and die for is a bunch of European crap that has done nothing but screw them up for a thousand years.
You gotta think for yourself, kid. Ummerrikins don’t let their independent judgement get all clouded by empty symbols waved in their face.
Ummerrikins value freedom of speech above everything else, even if that speech is offensive to others.
Ummerrikins understand the government is the servant, not the master, and that you don’t bow to the symbols of your servant.
Ummerrikins are real proud of that. Ummerrikins don’t fall for that national regalia stuff the way the Germans did in the 1930s.
If you understand that, kid, you can be an Ummerrikin. Now stand up with the rest of your class and start praying to that piece of cloth in the corner there.
And don’t even THINK about burning it.
Burning it bad juju.
"The court ruled today, 7-2, that joking about burning the flag was not protected speech under the 29th Amendment, and that the proprietors of a surf shop that sold T-shirts depicting a flag next to a lighter with an equals sign followed by the word "freedom" would have to serve the five years in prison given them by a lower court..."
Burning the flag is awful bad
Booga, booga
It makes our Republicans awful mad
Booga booga
So Republicans are awful glad
Booga booga
To pass a law to make flag burners awful sad
Booga booga
burning it bad juju
burning it bad for you
Note: I hereby admit that there is absolutely no danger that I will become the next Alan Ginsburg, whose work I admire.
But he would have wanted me to "put my queer shoulder to the wheel".