The Celibate Rifles - Salute lyrics

To every animal who eats or shoots his own kind And every hunter with rifles mounted in pickup trucks And every private marksman or minuteman with telescopic sight And every redneck in boots with dogs & sawed-off shotguns And every Peace Officer with dogs Trained to track & k** And every plainclothes-man or undercover agent With shoulderholster full of d**h And every servant of the people gunning down people Or shooting-to-k** fleeing felons And every Guardia Civil in any country guarding civilians With handcuffs & carbines And every border guard at no matter what Check Point Charley On no matter which side of which Berlin Wall Bamboo or Tortilla curtain And every elite statetrooper highwaypatrolman in custom-tailored ridingpants & plastic crash helmet & shoestring necktie & sixshooter in silver-studded holster And every prowlcar with riotguns & sirens and every riot-tank With mace & teargas And every crackpilot with rockets & napalm underwing And every skypilot blessing bombers at takeoff And any State Department of any superstate selling guns To both sides And every Nationalist of no matter what Nation in no matter What world Black Brown or White Who k**s for his Nation And every prophet or poet with gun or shiv and any enforcer Of spiritual enlightenment with force and any Enforcer of the power of any state with Power And to any and all who k** & k** & k** & k** for Peace I raise my middle finger In the only proper salute