Cia Dope Calypso Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC C C DDEE CC FFGGCC HIJJ CC KKLM CC NNOO CC PQ RR CC IISS CC TIUV CC TTWW CC| In nineteen hundred forty nine | A |
| China was won by Mao Tse tung | B |
| Chiang Kai Shek's army ran away | C |
| They were waiting there in Thailand yesterday | C |
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| Supported by the CIA | C |
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| Pushing junk down Thailand way | C |
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| First they stole from the Meo Tribes | D |
| Up in the hills they started taking bribes | D |
| Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan | E |
| Collecting opium to send to The Man | E |
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| Pushing junk in Bangkok yesterday | C |
| Supported by the CIA | C |
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| Brought their jam on mule trains down | F |
| To Chiang Mai that's a railroad town | F |
| Sold it next to the police chief's brain | G |
| He took it to town on the choochoo train | G |
| Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day | C |
| Supported by the CIA | C |
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| The policeman's name was Mr Phao | H |
| He peddled dope grand scale and how | I |
| Chief of border customs paid | J |
| By Central Intelligence's U S aid | J |
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| The whole operation Newspapers say | C |
| Supported by the CIA | C |
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| He got so sloppy and peddled so loose | K |
| He busted himself and cooked his own goose | K |
| Took the reward for the opium load | L |
| Seizing his own haul which same he resold | M |
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| Big time pusher for a decade turned grey | C |
| Working for the CIA | C |
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| Touby Lyfong he worked for the French | N |
| A big fat man liked to dine wench | N |
| Prince of the Meos he grew black mud | O |
| Till opium flowed through the land like a flood | O |
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| Communists came and chased the French away | C |
| So Touby took a job with the CIA | C |
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| The whole operation fell in to chaos | P |
| Till U S intelligence came in to Laos | Q |
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| Mary Azarian Matt Wuerker I'll tell you no lie I'm a true American | R |
| Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosavan | R |
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| All them Princes in a power play | C |
| But Phoumi was the man for the CIA | C |
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| And his best friend General Vang Pao | I |
| Ran the Meo army like a sacred cow | I |
| Helicopter smugglers filled Long Cheng's bars | S |
| In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars | S |
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| It started in secret they were fighting yesterday | C |
| Clandestine secret army of the CIA | C |
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| All through the Sixties the dope flew free | T |
| Thru Tan Son Nhut Saigon to Marshall Ky | I |
| Air America followed through | U |
| Transporting comfiture for President Thieu | V |
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| All these Dealers were decades and yesterday | C |
| The Indochinese mob of the U S CIA | C |
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| Operation Haylift Offisir Wm Colby | T |
| Saw Marshall Ky fly opium Mr Mustard told me | T |
| Indochina desk he was Chief of Dirty Tricks | W |
| Hitch hiking with dope pushers was how he got his fix | W |
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| Subsidizing the traffickers to drive the Reds away | C |
| Till Colby was the head of the CIA | C |
Allen Ginsberg
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