(06-02-2023, 06:16 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: "Lear jet S.W.A.T team
On a midnight run
With the M16
And the Ingram gun
We parachute in
We parachute out
Death from above
We're screaming now
Where the pay is good
And the risk is high
It's understood
We'll do or die
Stun gun in hand
Where the gun is law
From Ovamboland
To Nicaragua
Strength and muscle and jungle work
Three young men
In a Russian truck
With a little MAC-10
Sent 'em running to the huts
These few young men
The few who dare
To battle in hell
Le Mercenaire!"
Jungle Work has always been my favorite Zevon song, but wherever you got those lyrics from, they've got a couple of typos in them:
It's "Sten gun in hand" instead of "stun gun", the Sten gun being a WWII era British submachinegun of a very cheap, mostly stamped sheet metal, construction. Likewise, the verse about the "MAC-10", while undoubtedly referring the the Ingram MAC-10, actually says "with a little M-10 - see 'em runnin' to the huts!"
Also the line that says "we parachute in - we parachute out" may not make sense to some - how on Earth can you parachute OUT? What it is referring to is the practice of wrapping the dead in their parachutes in lieu of a body bag. "Parachuting out" is being carried out by your comrades wrapped in your own parachute, dead as 4 o'clock on a Thursday afternoon.
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Due to events of the past couple of weeks, and some unprecedented - to me - medical shit being perpetrated upon my august personage, this one is rapidly climbing my Zevon favorites list:
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