NAVY BLUEs

Oh our navy’s getting ready for the war
for the war
It’s fighting one it’s never fought before
fought before
We’re changing its direction
a political correction
no more moral dereliction when ashore
when ashore
We’re fighting for what a navy’s really for
really for

There’ll be no more cigar tubes up the ass
up the ass
There’ll be no more booze and smoking grass
Smoking grass?
That awful deviation
of ritual humiliation
got no place with this here nation’s navy brass
navy brass
There’ll be no more macho namby pamby so don’t ask
so don’t ask

Sexual harassment’s gonna go
gonna go
Kissing and a-cussing are no nos
are no nos
With the adminstration
of Gender Integration
there’ll be no more fra-ter-niza-tion down below
down below
And tolerance will be lowered to zero
to zero

We’ll have a nifty navy to ride the waves
ride the waves
The officers will be nonsexist and the seamen will behave
will behave
We’ll have lots more regulations
protecting persons of all stations
including women blacks and Asians who are gay
who are gay
And we won’t need ammunition so we’ll save
so we’ll save

RECENT ACCUMULATIONS AND APPROPRIATED VOICES, Kalayaan Publications, 1997