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From here to eternity
Mildred Pierce reporting
I was there, I saw it
I saw women thrown down on 5th Avenue
And raped in their mink coats
By blacks and whites and yellows
While street urchins stripped the rings from their fingers
A young officer stood nearby
"Aren't you going to do something?" I demanded
He looked at me and yawned
I found Colonel Bradshaw bivouacking in the Ritz
I told him bluntly what was going on
His eyes glinted shamelessly as he said
"Well, you have to take a broad general view of things"
And that's what I have been doing
Taking a broad general view of American troops
Raping and murdering helpless civilians
While American officers stand around and yawn
Been at it a long time, lady
It's the old Army game from here to eternity
It pays to pay the boys off
Tacitus describes a typical scene
If a woman or a good looking boy fell into their hands
They were torn to pieces in the struggle for possession
And the survivors were left to cut each other's throats
Well, there's no need to be that messy
Why waste a good looking boy?
Mother-loving American Army run by old women
Many of them religious, my God
Hanging American soldiers
Raping and murdering civilians
Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity
"What the bloody fucking hell are civilians for?
Soldiers pay!"