I'd like to kill the guy
Who wrote the rules
That made the Mid-East
Feud eternally

Who put the bomb in the "Yom" of Yom Kippur?
Who put the "blam" in the Ramadan of Islam?
Who put the crisis in Christmas "Peace on Earth"?
Who put the clash in the Rosh Hashannah? Gosh,...

...Who was that man?
I'll choke him if I can
He made the Mid-East full of misery (oy!)

Ev'ry time I hear
"Rat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-tat"
Bullets go right into someone's heart
And when I hear them bombing
"Blam, ka-blam, ka-blam, ka-blam ka-blam, a Kingdom"
I fear they'll tear the world apart

So....
Who put the "Sun" in the Sunni with a gun?
Who put the "East" in the Easter Resurrection?
Who put the "nuke" in the Hebrew Ha-"nuke"-kah
Who put the "shite" in the spiteful Shi'ite fight?

Who was that man?
I'd kick him in the can
He made the Mid-East fight most hatefully (ow!)

Each time that there's a bomb
Tragedy, tragedy, tragedy, tragedy, tragedy, tragedy, shoot!
Sets the Holy Land all aglow
And every time they fire off
Clip, on clip, on clip; clip, on clip, on clip
They kill a hundred kids or so
So...

Who told the bombers to pass on Pass-o-ver
Who put the "slam" in I-"Slam"-ic holy Jihad?
Who said that Christ said, "Crusade: Jerusalem"?
Who furnished guns to the Sons of Abraham? [1]

Who was that man?
Since history began
He's made the Mid-East always disagree (sheesh!)

(spoken)
Yeah! Bomb-a-bomb-a-bomb-a-bomb-a-bomb, my heart aches
Blam! - a flame, a thing gone forever
When I hear rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat
You know that I grieve
To the bottom of my tragedy-raggedy soul.

(sung)
Who was that man?
Caused war among the clan
He left the Mid-East fighting mortally

(repeat first verse ad lib and fade)



[1] Which all three religions are, of course, although they rarely admit their common ancestry publicly.