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If I Had A Stick

from Neon Bus God by Foovius Bar | D.S. Benson

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“If I Had a Stick” – a fun little song about the weapons race. Doesn’t everybody want a nuclear bomb? Doesn’t everybody want a sharpened stick? Pay attention to the repetition of the first verse at the end. Ooh, the irony!

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If I Had a Stick
Doug Benson, 12-15-2001


I was hunting alone far away from my home
In a place that I knew I should not be
And a beast from out of the darkest night
Was after me, was after me

This is not what I planned, I am not in command
And I call out to the forest gods
Won't someone give me shelter
Or at least even out the odds

If I only had a stick
If I had a sharpened stick
Nobody would bother me
Nobody gonna shake-a my tree
Just imagine how safe I'd be
If I only had a stick


I see the torches and I smell the pitch
As the enemy stand before my gate
And I do not know their intentions
But I’m fearful for my fate, fearful for my fate

Oh certainly I could parlay
For I am capable of reason
But deep inside I know that I
Have brought me to this season

But If I only had a spear
If I had a metal spear
Nobody would bother me
Nobody gonna shake-a my tree
Just imagine how safe I'd be
If I only had a spear


To the east and the west, to the north and the south
Nation by nation, driven insane
By a lack of desire to understand
Or a fever of the brain, fever of the brain

Fanatics spread, from head to head
And they threaten to wash up on our golden shore
And I know this kind of weakness preys
On the hungry and the poor

But If I only had a bomb
If I had an atom bomb
Nobody would bother me
Nobody gonna shake-a my tree
Just imagine how safe I'd be
If I had an atom bomb

[break]

If I only had a stick
If I had a sharpened stick
Nobody would bother me
Nobody gonna shake-a my tree
Just imagine how safe I'd be
If I only had a stick

Nobody would bother me
Nobody gonna shake-a my tree
Just imagine how safe I'd be
If I only had a stick

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from Neon Bus God, released September 18, 2012

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D.S. Benson
Musician. Writer. Made of meat. Mostly biodegradable.

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