MLF Lullaby

A considerable amount of commotion

Was stirred up during the past year

Over the prospect of a multilateral force

Known to the headline writers as MLF

Much of this discussion took place

During the baseball season

So the Chronicle may not have covered it

But it did get a certain amount of publicity

And the basic idea was

That a bunch of us nations

The good guys

Would, would get together

On a joint nuclear deterrent force

Including our current friends, like France

And our traditional friends, like Germany

Here's a song about that called The MLF Lullaby

Sleep, baby, sleep

In peace may you slumber

No danger lurks

Your sleep to encumber

We've got the missiles

Peace to determine

And one of the fingers

On the button will be German

Why shouldn't they have

Nuclear warheads?

England says, "No"

But they all are sore-heads

I say a bygone

Should be a bygone

Let's make peace the way we did

In Stanleyville and Saigon

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean

But that couldn't happen again

We taught them a lesson in nineteen-eighteen

And they've hardly bothered us since then

So sleep well, my darling

The Sandman can linger

We know our buddies

Won't give us the finger

Heil– Hail the Wehrmacht–

I mean the Bundeswehr

Hail to our loyal ally

MLF will scare Brezhnev

I hope he is half as scared as I