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Hey Joe,  (A  poetic-political parody of Jimmy Hendrix Hey Joe)

Hey Joe, where you going with those guns in your hands

I’m gonna give it to Benny and Bibi

To kill the people of Palestine

 

Hey Joe, where you going with 14 billion dollars in your hands

I’m gonna give it to Benny and Bibi

To keep their war machine running on end

 

Hey Joe, what are doing with your right hand

I’m gonna use it in the U.N Security Council

To veto the ceasefire resolution

 

Hey Joe, where you going with those bombs in your hands

I’m gonna give it to Benny and Bibi

To massacre the hungry people of Palestine

 

Hey Joe, what you doing with the fingers of your hand

I’m trying to count the dead woman and babies

Above the rubble in Palestine

 

Hey Joe, remember when your mama held your hand

Yeah she used to cuddle me and call me baby Joe

Today in Gaza they call me Genocide Joe

 

Hey Joe, I’ve heard all that you have to say

Listen now to our words

That till now you refused to hear

 

Hey Joe, even though you are old and cold

I want you to live many years longer

To see the ghosts of Gaza every day you look in the mirror

 

Hey Joe, have you heard the screaming sounds

When they cut a child’s leg

Without any anaesthesia

 

Hey Joe, do you know the cry

Of a hungry baby

That dies of starvation

 

Hey Joe, do you know the pain of a mother

Who lost all of her children

To the bombs of the Occupation

 

Hey Joe, do you know the sorrow of 17 ooo orphans

Whose mums and dads

Were butchered by the Occupation

 

Hey Joe, do you know how it feels

To be alone under the rubble for months

And have no one to bury you

 

Hey Joe, Imagine if it was Hunters

Limbs and brains, blown to bits

Without recognition

 

Hey Joe, even heroin

Cant numb

This type of pain

 

Hey Joe, do you know what it is like

To have not eaten for ten days

And have bullets blow up your intestines

 

Hey Joe, I pray that you never die

So that every night, you hear the cries and screams

Of our babies your bombs have killed

 

Hey Joe, I pray that these cries and screams

Haunt you forever and ever

And you never know peace or ever get to sleep

 

Hey Joe, Benny and Bibi

This genocidal horror we will always remember

Forever and ever and remind you and your empire

 

Hey Joe, I hear you, Benny and Bibi

Talk about the day after

Have you ever pondered about the hereafter

 

Hey Joe, Benny and Bibi

One fact you got to remember

Is that you will not live forever

 

Hey Joe, Benny and Bibi

When the babies of Gaza are asked why

They were killed, what will you say

 

Hey Joe, Benny and Bibi

One day for sure you will hear Roger sing

And Jimmy play, the day when Palestine is free

 

Hey, Joe, Benny and Bibi

You got the hate, bombs, guns, dollars and Merkava

We got our love, truth, songs, martyrs and Madiba

 

Hey Joe, Benny and Bibi

You will go down in history

As the barbaric killers of babies

 

Hey Joe, Benny and Bibi

The world will not be free

Until Palestine is free

 

Hey Joe, Benny and Bibi

From the river to the sea

Palestine will be free

 

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