Saffron Shuffle / 8888 Remix - poem

Almost 20 years of cruel oppression
culminated in a rise in gas prices.
Those gas prices in Rangoon led to
20,000 monks protesting in Burma.
Those protests led to 200 dead, today.
Yet various countries, including Canada,
allow companies to deal with the generals.
This is why the UN is slow to act.

Welcome to the Saffron Revolution,
where monks shuffle under the noses
of the Generals who rule Myanmar.
This Saffron shuffle will go on
until the world is distracted
by an even bigger spectacle.
Do not ever forget this: 8888 Lives!
Free Burma from poverty and corruption!

At the root of all this trouble is
the karma of British rule, and of
the original monarchy in Burma.
Although the Generals are Marxists,
their military dictatorship is
not unlike the Soviet Union's.
They learned well from the British
and the Japanese, but not from their people.

Welcome to the Saffron Revolution,
where monks shuffle under the noses
of the Generals who rule Myanmar.
This Saffron shuffle goes on now
while the world is distracted
by an even bigger spectacle.
Never ever forget this: 8888 Lives!
Free Burma from poverty and corruption!

Never ever forget this: 8888 Lives!
Free Burma from poverty and corruption!
Free Burma from poverty and corruption!
Free Burma from poverty and corruption!