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Hadda Be Playin' On The Jukebox Lyrics
It had to be flashin' like the daily double
It had to be playin' on TV It had to be loud mouthed on the comedy hour It had to be announced over loud speakers The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots It had to be said in old ladies' language It had to be said in American headlines Kennedy stretched and smiled and got double crossed by lowlife goons and agents Rich bankers with criminal connections Dope pushers in CIA working with dope pushers from Cuba working with a big time syndicate from Tampa, Florida And it had to be said with a big mouth It had to be moaned over factory foghorns It had to be chattered on car radio news broadcasts It had to be screamed in the kitchen It had to be yelled in the basement where uncles were fighting It had to be howled on the streets by newsboys to bus conductors It had to be foghorned into New York harbor It had to echo onto hard hats It had to turn up the volume in university ballrooms It had to be written in library books, footnoted It had to be in the headlines of the Times and Le Monde It had to be barked on TV It had to be heard in alleys through ballroom doors It had to be played on wire services It had to be bells ringing Comedians stopped dead in the middle of a joke in Las Vegas It had to be FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Costello syndicate mouthpiece meeting in Central Park, New York weekends, reported Time magazine It had to be the Mafia and the CIA together starting war on Cuba, Bay of Pigs and poison assassination headlines It had to be dope cops in the Mafia Who sold all their heroin in America It had to be the FBI and organized crime working together in cahoots against the commies It had to be ringing on multinational cash registers A world-wide laundry for organized criminal money It had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI together They were bigger than Nixon And they were bigger than war It had to be a large room full of murder It had to be a mounted ass- a solid mass of rage A red hot pen A scream in the back of the throat It had to be a kid that can breathe It had to be in Rockefellers' mouth It had to be central intelligence, the family, allofthis, the agency Mafia It had to be organized crime One big set of gangs working together in cahoots Hitmen Murderers everywhere The secret The drunk The brutal The dirty and rich On top of a slag heap of prisons Industrial cancer Plutonium smog Garbage cities Grandmas' bed soft from fathers' resentment It had to be the rulers They wanted law and order And they got rich on wanting protection for the status quo They wanted junkies They wanted Attica They wanted Kent State They wanted war in Indochina yeah It had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI Multinational capitalists Strong armed squads Private detective agencies for the oh so very rich And their armies and navies and their air force bombing planes It had to be capitalism The vortex of this rage This competition Man to man The horses head in a capitalists' bed The Cuban turf It rumbles in hitmen And gang wars across oceans Bombing Cambodia settled the score when Soviet pilots manned Egyptian fighter planes Chiles' red democracy Bumped off with White House pots and pans A warning to Mediterranean governments The secret police have been embraced for decades The NKPD and CIA keep each other's secrets The OGBU and DIA never hit their own The KGB and the FBI are one mind Brute force and full of money Brute force, world-wide, and full of money Brute force, world-wide, and full of money Brute force, world-wide, and full of money Brute force, world-wide, and full of money It had to be rich and it had to be powerful They had to murder in Indonesia 500000 They had to murder in Indochina 2000000 They had to murder in Czechoslovakia They had to murder in Chile They had to murder in Russia And they had to murder in America. Yeah!
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06-14-2006
"Brute force, world-wide, and full of money"
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"One mind, brute force, its full of money."
"The secret police have been embraced for decades"
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""The secret police embraced for decades"
"NKPD" is "NKVD," (the 'Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del' or People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs, the Soviet secret police).
"Grandmas' bed soft from fathers' resentment"
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"Grandmas' bedsores, fathers' resentment"
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03-02-2007
"Kennedy stretched and smiled and got double crossed by lowlife goons and agents"
Also comments not so sublety on the rumored connections between organized crime and govermnent,
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07-17-2007
The poem uses the analogy that the global conflicts during the cold war between the U.S. government and the old Soviet Union were gang warfare:
"The horses head in a capitalists' bed
The Cuban turf
It rumbles in hitmen
And gang wars across oceans"
The U.S. government is controlled by a few very wealthy minority and they employed the CIA as instigators and the U.S. armed forces as the muscle.
The Soviet Union was also controlled by a very wealthy minority who used the KGB as instigators and the red army as the muscle:
"Multinational capitalists
Strong armed squads
Private detective agencies for the oh so very rich
And their armies and navies and their air force
bombing planes"
There seems to be a connection between the tactics used by the mafia, and the tactics used by Government agencies to defend territory. There also seems to be collaboration between the two (mafia and U.S. Government) against the Soviet Union:
"It had to be the FBI and organized crime working together in cahoots against the commies"
The poem reaches its climax, when the result of this gang warfare between rich people is revealed to be millions of poeple killed:
"THEY had to be rich, THEY had to be powerful
They had to murder in Indonesia 500000
They had to murder in Indochina 2000000
They had to murder in Czechoslovakia
They had to murder in Chile
They had to murder in Russia
And they had to murder in America."
In the beginning of the poem, the author imagines and wishes that this knowledge would be distributed in every corner of the U.S:
"It had to be flashin' like the daily double
It had to be playin' on TV
It had to be loud mouthed on the comedy hour
It had to be announced over loud speakers"
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09-25-2007
its not a metaphor
"The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots"
thats a literal statement
03-03-2009
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10-07-2007
"The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots against the commies" refers to tactics used by the U.S. Government in collaboration with the mafia to inflict damage on the other side. I never attached the world analogy to this part of the poem.
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