Have you heard the terrible news?
U.S. forces bombed a hospital in Kunduz.
It gives me a case of the wartime blues,
makes me shake with the war crime blues.
You can’t win a war, you can only lose.
U.S. forces already knew
the place was off limits under the law, before
they attacked, killing twenty-two.
The chain of command I sadly accuse
of being at fault and causing the spread
of the war crime blues.
The attack was launched at two
in the morning. It came without warning,
with no sign or clue.
The first bombs fell on the hospital’s I-C-U.
Patients were burned in their hospital beds,
it is tragically true.
Despite frantic calls, the bombing continued
for well over an hour, showing the wartime power
to be arrogant, cowardly and relentlessly rude.
That no U.S. leader would stand and refuse
to carry out such orders makes me shake
with the war crime blues.
Bombing a hospital, no one should do.
Among the dead were three young children,
their lives cut short, who were murdered, too.
The U.S. attacked the only hospital in Kunduz.
Now it’s the people, wounded and writhing in pain,
who will shake with the war crime blues.
Have you heard the terrible news?
U.S. forces bombed a hospital in Kunduz.
Does it give you a case of the wartime blues?
Does it make you shake with the war crime blues?
You can’t win a war, you can only lose.
