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Carols for Palestine
Re-writing Christmas Carols for 2023
Beastly Kings
Beastly king to Palestine comes
Bearing gifts of thousand pound bombs
Lice and scabes, killing babies
Quoting his hymns and psalms
O star of phosphor, star so white
Star of Israel’s power and might
Westerners leading, still proceeding
Killing all in their sight
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes an air of gathering gloom:
Sorrow, sighing, bleeding dying
Sealed in a concrete tomb
O star of phosphor, star so white
Star of Israel’s power and might
Westerners leading, still proceeding
Killing all in their sight
Glorious now behold him arise
A king, a god, the Lord of the Flies*
Settlers sing Hallelujah
“Damn you” the world replies
O star of phosphor, star so white
Star of Israel’s power and might
Westerners leading, still proceeding
Killing all in their sight
