small guitar usually tuned A to a - but tuned G to a here
the equivalent of drop D tuning on a guitar
beware the peace keepers
when it's not peace they wanna keep
beware the peace keeper
when it's a bear among the sheep
we've heard the sabers rattling
for oh so many weeks
now when the troops march in
they say it's peace that they seek
the bear has made its move
it roams among the sheep
it’s been hungry all the winter
it is not peace that it seeks
@tseaver Feb 2022
Nice write! Clever shift from the more usual "wolf" to "bear": I wonder to whom you might be referring? :) That little guitar is a workhorse!
@berni1954 Feb 2022
On the surface, such a bouncy, almost "children's" song - but underneath a chilling assessment of the current political showdown. I had hoped that our generation would avoid a world war, now I'm not so sure we will. I lived through the Nigerian Civil War / War of Biafran Independence as a youth and that one didn't even involve "tactical nuclear weapons"... I saw horrors that will live with me till my last breath.
The Head Bear has never accepted the collapse of the totalitarian regime that had the gall to call itself socialist. He won't stop until he has reunited the old USSR (though he might just forget the Islamic Republics for now).
@p3t3h4rv3y Feb 2022
oh spot on! many a true word is sung with a small guitar.
I hope that mean ol' bear doesn't fuck everything up for the lot of us.