Mlf Lullaby lyrics

Song information

Artist: Tom Lehrer
Album: That Was The Year That Was

Lyrics

A considerable amount of commotion was stirred up during the past year over the prospect of a multi-lateral force, known to the headline writers as mlf. much of this discussion took place during the baseball season so the chronicle may not have covered it but it did get a certain amount of publicity, and the basic idea was that a bunch of us nations, the good guys, would get together on a joint nuclear deterrent force including our current friends, like france, and our traditional friends, like germany. here's a song about that called the mlf lullaby

Sleep, baby, sleep, in peace may you slumber
No danger lurks, your sleep to encumber
We've got the missiles, peace to determine
And one of the fingers on the button will be german

Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads?
England says no, but they are all soreheads
I say a bygone should be a bygone
Let's make peace the way we did in stanleyville and saigon

Once all the germans were warlike and mean
But that couldn't happen again
We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen
And they've hardly bothered us since then

So sleep well, my darling, the sandman can linger
We know our buddies won't give us the finger
Heil--hail--the wehrmacht, I mean the bundeswehr
Hail to our loyal ally!
Mlf
Will scare brezhnev
I hope he is half as scared as i

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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