Mideast Vacation - Neil Young
from the book _Life_
typed by Steve Vetter
thanks to Stephen House (it's his book)

Intro:
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I used to watch Highway Patrol whittlin' with my knife
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but the thought never struck me I'd be black and white for life
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I was raised on law and order in a community of strife
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became a restless border and I never took a wife
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I went looking for Khadafi aboard Air Force One
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but I never did find him and the CIA said son
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you'll never be a hero, your flying days are done
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it's time for you to go home now, stop sniffin that smoking gun

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I was travellin with my family through the mideast late one night
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in the hotel all was quite the kids were out like little lights
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then the street filled with jeeps there was an explosion to the right
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they chanted "death to America" I was feelin like a fight

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So I ran down the stairs and out into the street
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someone kicked me in the belly someone else kissed my feet
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I was Rambo in the disco shooting to the beat
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When they burned me in effigy my vacation was complete