Paxton, Tom - Be A Sport, Afghanistan Lyrics






Let me have a word with you, you’re sporting kind of man
Captain of the Olympic team, here at Afghanistan
And you don’t wanna go to Moscow - wonderful - let me commend your zeal
But still I hope you won’t lose sight of the pure Olympic ideal
Be a sport Afghanistan, be a sport
Not everyone can be a winner - some fall short
So you might not win a medal
So you feel a little flat
So you lost a little freedom
Hell, we all have days like that
Don’t be a drag Afghanistan, don’t be a drag
We’ll help you sew a couple o’ stitches in your flag
As you march around the stadium to musical strains
Be sure to wave to Lord Killanin and the rest of the brains
For you know they’ll never listen to the clanking of your chains
So be a sport Afghanistan, be a sport
Don’t be rude Afghanistan, now don’t be rude
Politics and the Olympics don’t intrude
The Olympiad is holy
We observe the niceties
We’re above the petty squabbles
You could ask the Taiwanese
Try to smile Afghanistan, try to smile
Show the world a little sportsmanship and style
Just because you’ve been invaded
Is no reason to lose heart
Just because you’re in a war you didn’t want and didn’t start
Still remember that you have the joy of simply taking part
So be a sport Afghanistan, be a sport
The committee’s full of sporting chaps that comes as no surprise
And we’ve already ordered our blazers and some ripping Olympic ties
So it’s too late to call the games off - that would never ever do
And the hopeful eyes of the sporting world - are firmly fixed on you
Rise and shine Afghanistan, rise and shine
Help us whip those other nations into line
They’ll believe you if you tell ‘em
That the boycott isn’t fair
You been running for your lives at home
Hell, why not do it there
Show some class Afghanistan, show some class
Just because the Russians saw some greener grass
Just because you lost some freedom - it’s not sporting to complain
Still you got an invitation and we’re happy to explain
That the Russian’s have agreed that they will take you there by train
So be a sport Afghanistan, be a sport
You’ll be runnin’ around Siberia when you run
Be a sport Afghanistan, be a sport





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  1. A.... P....

    When is this song from?

  2. A.... S....

    This could have been written yesterday! we love you Tom.

  3. J.... F....

    One of the best satirical songwriters of all time.  Him and Arlo Guthrie are two of the greatest that have ever walked the earth and massaged the neck of a guitar or tickled the plastic ivories.

    J.... F....

    +John Fisher He is certainly good but the prize for satire goes to Phil Ochs. They were actually friends and did a lot of political gigs together and Paxton has a tribute song to Phil Ochs.

    J.... F....

    G rJohn Fisher unuuuhynn

    M

  4. b.... ....

    @djboyle4 Cleaver, do mean the Beaver's family name, or are you just stuck on head chopping. Why don't you get afraid of the people who are feeding you your narrow minded bullshit. I f you're worried about our economy collapsing, think about what this ten year excursion into Iraq and Afganistan has done for it. Is your house worth more than before this war. Lotsa people getting rich from this war skeezix, but chances are, you ain't one of them, and neither are the people who are fighting it.

  5. C.... T....

    @EatCraps It has a little to do with the Americans. It has to do with the American boycott of the 1980 Olympics.....

  6. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 Well?

  7. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 And can you make my day by providing me the website from which I "copy and paste" all my polemics from?See if you can get back to me on that one.

  8. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 To try to blame the creation of the Taliban on some group other than the association of people who ACTUALLY were responsible for the founding of the group is ridiculous.And to to try to pretend the Pakistanis were simply incapable of forming these feudalists by themselves without the indirect assistence of American Imperialism is just stunningly naive if not borderline racist and patronizing.

  9. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 Ku Klux Klan:Well they never would have existed if it weren't for the American Civil War.
    Partition of India and Pakistan:If it weren't for WW2 that would have never happened
    Partition of "Isreal" from Palestine;Well gee willickers this must of happened just because of WW1
    My point is,there IS such a thing as self-determinism.The Pakistani ISI could have chosen NOT to create an army of wild-eyed Deobandi Madrassah students.But you know what.THEY ACTUALLY DID

  10. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 "The Leaders of the Taliban were 'War Hardened' in that conflict"
    So if Operation Cycylone would have never happened you're trying to claim the Talibs would never have been organized?
    Lets point out the logical fallacy here by reading your argument back to you by applying the consequences of your logic to other events in history.
    Naploean:Well he would never have existed if it weren't for the French Revolution.

  11. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 If you think Pakistan is a "neo-colony" of any other country besides its own deep state then I PITY YOU for thinking that.
    And Christian is MY NAME you fool.

  12. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 Once again you fucking imbecile......
    The talibs were organized BY THE PAKISTANI ISI.
    Do you not understand this point of mine?

  13. C.... T....

    Gotta love Tom Paxton. Sometimes I have to go read up on history after listening to his songs (for example, here, the 1980 US Olympic Boycott)

  14. m.... ....

    @Christian121y Bill Casey Director of C.I.A. under the Reagan administration funded the ISI bigtime creating a conduit to supply the mujahideem with the weapons and training and finiancial resources required for that war.Regarding Pakistan.. they as a State are bankrolled by the U.S @ Tens of Billions of Dollars. Ruled by the Military Dictators directly or by Proxi the likes of General Zia and Pervez Musharraf come to mind 'Many Countries have an Army But very Few Armies Have a Country'

  15. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 Yes the American Deep State is bad you fool.Want to hear something else?The sky is blue.Stunning isn't it?That doesn't mean the Talibs weren't created by the PAKISTANI Deep State and not by the AMERICAN one.I'm a stickler for facts at the end of the day and it's a ridiculous assertion to try to say that the ISI wouldn't have just used some other demographic to pilfer from to support their imperialism.I mean really now.......

  16. C.... ....

    @malachy1847 The Taliban were created in 1994 by the Pakistani deep state in the form of ISI "assistance" several years after the Bureaucratic Collectivists had already been chased out you dolt.But oh well,I guess whenever you need some cheap paleoconservative jab at the CIA and American interventionism the facts are always mass casualties......

  17. S.... ....

    What an accidental find!
    Great!
    Thank you!

    And remember:
    It's Only a Game!
    :)

  18. j.... h....

    @EatCraps k you win i quit

  19. j.... h....

    lord give ues paxton back or elvis we will GLADLY trade them with justin beiber

  20. T.... B....

    @supsupese See those two little vertical lines bottom left? Click on those from time to time and write down the words as they're sung. Pfff. And then send me a copy. Thanks.

  21. m.... ....

    @djboyle4 This song is over thirty years old written about the U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics in 1980... back then it was America was backing the Taliban and The Musideum ..against those bamn Ruskies .. Now what was it the C.I.A. called unintended harmful consequences for of those actions.... .. Oh yes Blowback!

  22. l.... ....

    @djboyle4man do you know anything about modern history hes singing about the RUSSIAN invasion of the Afghanistan during the cold war

  23. M.... L....

    This is about the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1980 and the American boycott of the Olympics in that year.

  24. E.... ....

    Do you even know what this song is about ? it is about when AFGHANISTAN was occupied by RUSSIA. it has nothing to do with TERRORISTS. AND NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU AMERICANS!
    Its a message of disapproval from Paxton. And who said anything about Nuclear warfare ? Are you referring to "all clear in Harrisburg"?