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cia dope calypso
Allen Ginsberg
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In nineteen hundred forty-five
China was won by Mao Tse Tung
Chiang Kai Shek's army ran away
And they're waiting there in Thailand today
Supported by the C.I.A
Pushing junk down Thailand Way
First they stole from the Meo tribes
Up in the hills they started taking bribes
Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan
Collecting opium to sell to the man
Pushing junk in Bangkok today
Supported by the C.I.A
Brought their jam on mule trains down to
Chiang Rai, that's a railroad town
Sold it next to police chief Brain
He took it to town on the choo-choo train
Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day
Supported by the C.I.A
The policeman's name was Mr. Fao
He peddled dope, grand scale and how
Chief of the border customs paid
By Central Intelligence's U.S. aid
The whole operation, newspapers say
Supported by the C.I.A
He got so sloppy and he peddled so loose
He busted himself and he cooked his own goose
Took the reward for an opium load
Seizing his own haul, which same he resold
Big time pusher, a decade turned grey
A-working for the C.I.A
The whole operation fell into chaos
'Til U.S. Intelligence came into Laos
I tell you no lie, I'm a true American
Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosavan
All them princes in the power play
But Phoumi was the man for the C.I.A
Touby Lifong, he worked for the French
Big fat man, liked to dine and to wench
Prince of the Meos, he grew black mud
'Til opium flowed through the land like a flood
Communists came and chased the French away
So Touby took a job with the C.I.A
And his best friend, General Vang Pao
Ran our Meo army like a sacred cow
Helicopter smugglers filled Long Chieng's bars
In Xieng Khouang Province on the Plain of Jars
It started in secret, they were fighting yesterday
Contestant secret army of the C.I.A
All through the sixties the dope flew free
Through Tanzan, Ho Chi, Saigon to Marshall Key
Air America followed through
Transporting confiture for President Thieu
All these dealers were decades yesterday
The Indochinese mob of the U.S.C.I.A
Operation Haylift, Officer William Colby
Saw Marshall Key fly opium, Mr. Mustard told me
Indochina desk, he was chief of dirty tricks
Hitchhiking with dope pushers was how he got his fix
Subsidizing traffickers to drive the Reds away
'Til Colby was the head of the whole world C.I.A
Subsidizing traffickers to drive the Reds away
'Til Colby was the head of the whole world C.I.A