Blaze Foley - Springtime In Uganda Chords

[Verse]
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Idi Amin should be hung by his nose
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In front of his palace without any clothes
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Tied up with barbed wire and beat up with sticks
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Relieved of his insides and filled up with bricks
 
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He calls on his neighbors for three meals a day
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He don't save his scr*ps he just throws them away
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Hangs them and shoots them and tells God they died
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He likes them toasted and pickled and fried
 
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Kampala, Uganda on Saturday night
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Idi Amin just stepped out for a bite
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The waitress she ask him, "Can I help you please?"
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Platter of elbows, a bowl full of knees
 
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He has got medals all over his chest
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He didn't win them he stole them I guess
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Ears in his pockets and eyes in his stew
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Don't try to stop him 'cause he might eat you (chomp chomp, chomp chomp)
 
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Newspapers say he's got social disease
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He screams in the bathroom whenever he pees
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His sons and his daughters got syphilitic brains
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They don't even plug in their electric trains (poor kids)
 
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Idi Amin just got married again
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Instead of champagne they served penicillin
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Rings on his fingers and sores on his toes
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His shankers go with him wherever he goes
 
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Even his doggy has got syphilis too
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If you were his doggy he'd give it to you
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The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn
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He eats their babies as soon as they're born
 
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Idi Amin should be hung by his balls
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Cut into pieces and tucked to the walls
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So all of his horses and all of his men
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Could never put Idi together again
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Could never put Idi together again
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