How many babies, how many babies, how many babies......
Cold steel will turn in the twilight of your intestines,
A cough of hungry darkness,
dropping from the dollars your bank invests in the Third World.
How many babies, how many babies, how many babies......
Do you hear the gurgling Death Rattle Death Rattle,
Soft food warm in your dark intestines,
Clinging to mud/blood/death rattle dead rattle.
How many babies, how many babies, how many babies......
You've been bribed with TV dinners,
You've been conned by college and game shows.
Imperialism sleeps in the center of your Hostess Twinkie.
How many babies, how many babies, how many babies......
The pesticides in your coffee can't be sprayed on your lawn,
But they kill women in Guatemala.
Don't you smell the corpses in your kitchen?
How many babies, how many babies, how many babies......
There is blood on your bank book,
The tear gas and machine guns makes it hard to clean your swimming pool.
Cold steel will turn in the twilight of your intestines.
How many babies, how many babies, how many more babies......
David Graver / Randy Magnus
David wrote this to me on a postcard as stream of consciousness. I re-worked it, making the "how many babies" line into the chorus.
(The basic sound for this piece was recorded in a sound booth at the Exploratorium in San Francisco on a homemade sound generator that one of their artist-in-residence created. I would turn the dials until I got the sound and speed that I liked and record it with my Superscope portable tape deck.)
Listen to How Many Babies from The Pearl Harbor Show
Or watch the complete performance on this YouTube player.
Video shot by Brenda Kleinfelder and produced by Randy Magnus for Art TV.
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