Jon Herbert Two Mercenaries Lyrics

Two Mercenaries Lyrics

1. In quarters of the third world as you mercenaries know
In mountain caves
and jungles where your angels fear to go
The trick they say, my boy, is that
you play a waitin’ game
Cause they may not come out runnin’ but
they’ll come out just the same.

The man’s okayed a hand
grenade, you toss it down the hatch
And watch for signs of panic as they
scramble for the latch
You see some heads? You loose some lead for William
Calley’s shame!
Yeah, they may not come out runnin’ but they
come out just the same
Charlie don’t come out runnin’ but he
comes out just the same.

(Spoken)
‘The US are there to protect
the people of South Vietnam from atrocities against
civilians’
‘What appears to be a massacre at My Lai is under no
circumstances justified’.
Richard Nixon, Dec 8, 1969


2. You
ain’t slackin’ off there boy? Fire another shell!
Just a coupla
Contras there as far as I can tell!
Heaven’s gates are waitin’
for the timid or the tame
Sandanista don’t come runnin’ but they
come out just the same.

From Kosovo and Baghdad to Ramallah,
Palestine
Red Crescent take the wounded heroes further down the
line
We’ll hit that Chinese embassy – bet NATO gets the
blame!
Yeah, they may not come out runnin’ but they'll come out just
the same!

(Spoken)
‘NATO and the United States deeply regret
this incident and the loss of life it has caused.’
‘ NATO had no
intention of hitting the Chinese Embassy’
US Secretary of Defence,
William Cohen, May 10, 1998

3. See that woman tapping out that message
on the wire?
That bike kid riding counting revolutions of his tyre?
And
that one-leg mine detector, there? Well he’s only partly lame! -
Yeah,
they may not come out runnin’ but they’ll come out just the
same!

You ain’t getting younger boy – pension fund’s a
must
Hope you got some money in that Cayman Island trust?
I got one more
contract here for fortune, not for fame
They may not come out runnin’
but they’ll come out just the same.

It’s destiny that
dances, boy, so go and do your worst
You’ll get no second chances boy
so don’t you blow your first
Or I’ll be gunnin’ for yer if
I ever hear your name!
They may not come out runnin’ but they’ll
come out just the same
Yeah, Johnnie don’t come runnin’ but he
comes out just the same.

(Spoken)

‘The Palestinian
leadership declares its genuine sorrow and unreserved condemnation of this
dangerous and criminal act,
which targeted the World Trade Centre in New
York, the Pentagon and other locations’
Yasser Arafat, September11,
2001