Decemberists Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics

Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics

Sixteen military wives:

thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes.

Staring at the natural tan of 

thirty-two gently clutching wrinkled little hands.

Seventeen company men:

out of which only twelve will make it back again.

Sargeant sends a letter to

five military wives as tears rip from ten little eyes.



Cheer them on to their rivals,

'cause America can, and America can't say no.

And America does if America says it's so, it's so.

And the anchorperson on TV goes

"La-di-da-di-da."



Fifteen celebrity minds, 

leading their fifteen sordid wretched checquered lives.

Will they find the solution in time, 

using their fifteen pristine moderate liberal minds?

Eighteen Academy Chairs, 

out of which only seven really even cares,

doling out a garland to five 

celebrity minds: they're humbly taken by surprise.



Cheer them on to their rivals,

'cause America can, and America can't so no.

And America does, if America says it's so, it's so.

And the anchorperson on TV goes

"La-di-da-di-da-di-diddy-diddy-da.

La-di-da-di-da-di-diddy-diddy-da."



Fourteen cannibal kings

wondering brightly what the dinner bell will bring.

Fifteen celebrity minds,

served in a leafy bed of sixteen military wives.



Cheer them on to their rivals,

'cause America can, and America can't say no.

And America does if America says it's so, it's so.

And the anchorperson on TV goes,

"La-di-da-di-da-di-diddy-diddy-da.

La-di-da-di-da-di-diddy-diddy-da.

La-di-da-di-da-di-diddy-diddy-da.

La-di-da-di-da-di-diddy-diddy-da."