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( Friends of Hillary & Bill Clinton that have moved on )
FATAL FRIENDS & FATTENING FOE
Copyright © 1998, 2003 - mickterry.com

1: Ordinarily, I don't give much time
to political discourse,
but something came across my desk
that at first I took as farce.
E-mailed by a friend who often
sends a joke or two to share,
but this differed much from the other stuff
in its tendency to scare.

2: I really thought it was in jest:
this could never be for real.
The whole idea was too absurd;
it had comedy appeal.
But I wondered if so many stiffs
could happen on their own,
as I read the stats there portrayed as facts
that were not so widely known.

CHORUS:
Of fatal friends and fattening foe,
should I believe what I am hearing
of suicides and accidents,
of people disappearing?
Of fatal friends and fattening foe,
it's scary just to think
that all these deaths have a common strand,
one very deadly link.

3: Some victims were of high esteem,
while some others were not such.
And some were called to testify;
maybe someone knew too much.
I don't usually see conspiracies
in everything that moves,
but a second look for what's overlooked
may provide something to prove.

BRIDGE:
A decapitated witness
was said to have naturally died.
A gunshot wound to the back of the head
was ruled a suicide.
Eleven other people's fates
were likewise ruled the same.
And two kids were found all over the ground
after "sleeping" beneath a train.
CHORUS:

4: A dozen bodyguards are dead
of causes unexplained.
Ten people murdered, three crashed in cars
and five more crashed in planes.
If coincidence or just bad luck,
close to fifty dead or killed,
but it seems a great mortality rate
just to be a Friend of Bill.

CODA:
If the country's chase of a sexual case
can nearly crush an administration,
maybe we should bring all of this whole thing
to further investigation.
But then, who is free (besides you & me)
of a prejudicial view ?
Who knows what we'd find if we searched inside
the misdeeds of George W. ?

Copyright © 1998, 2003  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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6-4-08
Hillary Clinton loses Democratic Party Presidential nomination.

Written in 1998 after reading an article about deaths
involving people somehow involved with Bill Clinton,
this song lyric was put on this site with an updated coda
regarding George W. Bush on 11-18-03,
unaware of the death of Michael Kamen in England the same day.

The title was a parody of a song (Faithful Friends & Flattering Foe)
by a group that  Mick Terry  really liked many years ago,
The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, fusing rock & classical music.
The founder, keyboardist & lead oboist (of 2 *) was Michael Kamen,
who went on to renown as a film composer (X-Men, Robin Hood,
Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Mr. Holland's Opus, Frequency).
Also an orchestral arranger & conductor of numerous projects
in the rock & classical worlds (Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Metallica),
numerous awards, including Grammies, were bestowed upon him.

Kamen & Richard Dreyfus founded The Mr. Holland's Opus
Foundation to rebuild musical instruments & to give new & used
instruments to schools & children to help get kids playing music again.
The headquarters of the foundation is right down the street from
Mick Terry's  home near Los Angeles.   Small world.
Michael Kamen died 11-18-03 in England from a heart attack
at the age of 55, after battling multiple schlerosis for several years.
MichaelKamen.com

* (The other oboist was Kamen's roommate at Juliard, the drummer,
Martin Fulterman, who later changed his name to Mark Snow
and also became a world-renowned film & TV composer:
X-Files, Smallville, Millenium.)

For documentation & links:
http://www.etherzone.com/body.html
http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/WWDEATH.HTM
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.html

For a debunking as suburban legend by Snopes.com:
http://snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/clinton.htm
( hmmm ...
Interesting that this seems to be the longest, most in-depth Snopes.com
page ever & that their link for a comparative body count for
George W. Bush was, for the longest time, a dead link.
Okay, pun intended.   But, "hmmm ... ", anyway. )

As for the "résumé" of GWB:
http://pages.zdnet.com/trimb/id120.html
http://michaelw.net/Articles/GeorgeBushsresumebyKellyK.html,
Snopes says they "haven't had the time to properly delve
into the multiplicity of claims contained in it yet" (11-24-03):
http://snopes.com/politics/bush/resume.asp ,
deferring to a highly documented site:
http://www.crossbearer.com/opinion/resume.html
and to a highly documented blog:
http://idontfeelsogood.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_idontfeelsogood_archive.html
Evidently, they must still be very busy.
Snopes has not yet changed that page (as of 6-4-08).

To other political song lyrics:   CAN WE TALK?
BUSHWHACKED
DEATH OR TAXES
LOOSE LIPS LIBBY
TOP GOES THE DIESEL
OUT ON THE LEFT COAST
SPREAD A LOT OF MONEY
ST. RONALD REAGANOMICS
THE $164 MILLION QUESTION
LET ME BUY YOU BREAKFAST
MY PRESIDENT, RIGHT OR DUMB
APATHETIC ABOUT YOUR ETHICS
GASOLINE PRICES WERE PLUNGING
(DICK CLARKE'S) AMERICAN GRANDSLAM
DICK CHENEY ASKED ME TO GO HUNTING
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