John Edmond - Snakes and Snipers Lyrics

We stood for what we know is right
We stood against the Red Star's might
We won the fight upon the battlefield

But then the politicians came
And played us at an alien game
And said that we should bend and we should yield

And the snakes and snipers
Plagued us in the bush
But they couldn't ever beat us with the sword
Now the snakes and snipers
Hide behind the pen
And try to get us with the written word

They say the pen is bold and free
And mightier than the sword could be
But puppets are the scribes that write the play

Those puppets do not know their lot
They've never heard an angry shot
And only write to earn a weekly pay

And the snakes and snipers
Plagued us in the bush
But they couldn't ever beat us with the sword
Now the snakes and snipers
Hide behind the pen
And try to get us with the written word

So write your periodicals
Sunday penny horribles
And keep on sniping at us from afar

It takes much more than that to keep
A troopie from his beauty sleep
We're proud of what we did and what we are

And the snakes and snipers
Plagued us in the bush
But they couldn't ever beat us with the sword
Now those snakes and snipers
Hide behind the pen
And try to get us with the written word