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That Little Bitty Country Showed Us How 7/4/2021 2:05:43 PM
45 years ago today, while we celebrated Independence Day, great drama took place in the Middle East and Africa. I was in Hollywood and wanted to make a film about it but half a dozen major producers announced they would make the Entebbe film. So I covered it with a poem hoping to get Henry Fonda to record it. Henry was having heart problems and time passed. I recorded it myself and shared it with friends. That Little Bitty Country
Showed Us How
C. 1976
I’d been wondering what had happened to our world
As if someone turned it upside down and got it all unfurled
Any bum who had a gun could have his day
And all the sheep in leader’s clothes would look the other way
But that little bitty country showed us how
You don’t talk to bullies, you don’t bow
You move like a man and you mow’em down
The Rescue at Entebbe is renowned
The bullies with their guns took the plane
They had grenades and acted bold with blazing eyes, insane,
The innocent a board were bound for France
They had no chance
The bullies made demands, acted tough
A hundred souls they herded in a hanger, handled rough
With not a friend between, a thousand leagues away
That little bitty country decided what to do that day
Yes that little bitty country showed us how
You don’t talk to bullies, you don’t bow
You move like a man and you mow’em down
The Rescue at Entebbe is renowned
Across the sea we celebrated in the sun
200 years since we had dealt with bullies and had won
While we rejoiced and waved our flags, they flew their planes at night
They did what seemed impossible, they saved their kin; they won their fight…
That little bitty country showed us how.
More Blogs by Andrew T Halmay • That Little Bitty Country Showed Us How - Sunday, July 4, 2021 • Canada & the U.S. - Tuesday, October 4, 2016 • I do it My Way - Saturday, June 11, 2016
