Date: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:03 pm
Subject: “Iraqi War Song” Gives Protesters Musical Boost
Date: 26 Sep 2002 20:08:27 -0000
From: pr@t...
Subject: “Iraqi War Song” Gives Protesters Musical Boost
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NEWS RELEASE
Release: No. 1-IWS/002
Date Mailed: Sept. 26, 2002
For Immediate Release
Contact: Elaine Zacky—208-265-2575; 888-508-4787
“Iraqi War Song” Gives Protesters Musical Boost:
Country Joe McDonald’s Woodstock Anthem Updated
Sandpoint, ID — The famous Vietnam War protest anthem written
and performed by Country Joe McDonald at the historic Woodstock
concert in 1969, has been re-released with updated lyrics to
serve the rapidly growing anti-globalization and War protest
movement. The single titled, “The Iraqi War Song’ or ‘Feel Like
I’m Smelling a Rat Rag,’” is a parody of the original “Feel Like
I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag” that became the “rallying cry” of the
hippie and baby-boomer generations. The song helped bring an end
to the Vietnam War.
The new lyrics were written and sung by an award winning health
science writer and leading critic of the Bush administration’s
emergency preparedness plans for domestic bioterrorism, Dr.
Leonard Horowitz. The heavily credentialed doctor is currently
working with Amnesty International officials in support of their
developing HIV/AIDS human rights petition. He conceived of the
project and contacted Joe McDonald (of “Country Joe and the
Fish”) for support, which the folk hero freely granted.
The new song by “Country Bumpkin and the Hogs” offers comical
hard-hitting lyrics that include references to the president
as “that son-of-a-Bush,” who directs a globalist war for
oil. “Most people know it’s a scam,” yet do nothing. “With
Prozac-minds we don’t care to know why, whoopee we’re all gonna
die!”
The single, released today on CD by a non-profit publisher,
Tetrahedron, LLC, is freely downloadable from
www.healingcelebrations.com with a small optional donation
requested ($4.49). All profits will be distributed to Amnesty
International—among Joe McDonald’s favorite charities—to support
the organization’s ongoing HIV/AIDS investigations, and to
establish a special “Fund For American Political
Prisoners,” sponsored by Dr. Horowitz.
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