Xinhua

Xinhua                                           November 16, 2005

What's going on out there?

I don't know, but they sure do,

Or so they claim. So they claim.

A finding from the Ming Dynasty

Serves as an oracle for the Revolution of '49,

Or so they say. And they do say.

What else is out there

But the paper with the funny characters,

The People's source, Xinhua, everyday?

It's "Hail To The Motherland!" or no

With the intelligencia's twists and turns.

I don't believe it, but they sure do;

It's all they know. Really, all they know.

America seeks to oppress the world

With its, quote, "imperialism,"

And is viewed as a heathen, to end all else.

Well, I don't about you, but this I do believe

Of those fellers in the Great Hall:

The noodles in their bowls

Took a right away from Albuquerque, to their brains.

And those peasants in the rice paddies

Who can't read, much less write,

The news is broadcast to them by forked tongue.

"Have one baby, you will prosper,"

All this, that and the other....

My friends, whatever happened to Confuscian values?

But don't fret, China, for the sun will rise again,

Xinhua will return tomorrow morn,

Updating you with the latest "water buffalo."

If you want to think for yourself, that's too bad,

They'll just stir the contents up real thick,

For if you're the bird extending out its head,

You'll undoubtedly be shot down. Yeah.