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The Pope And The Dope

This version of The Pope And The Dope was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1971.

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Now if a order was to come down from the Pope,
The Catholics ain’t allowed to smoke no dope,
if they couldn’t get high would they feel real low,
And Would they get pissed off down in Mexico,

and if Mayor John Lindsey was to propose,
the Oh Calcutta cast had to wear clothes,
would they still come all the way from Kokomo,
just to dig the show,

What if Eldridge Cleaver was to devise a plan,
For the Black Panther Party of America to be merged with the Ku Klux Klan,

And If Richard Nixon made Spiro Agnew
the new ambassador to Timbuktu,
if he was to do it well, do you guess
it’d improve his relationship with CBS,

What if Lester Maddox was to pass a law,
that the black population of Georgia had to be moved into Arkansas,
Aww Would it make Orval Faubus sore and start a 2 state civil war,
And Would they ask the government for federal aid to buy pickaxe handles and razorblades

Bop Bop Bop Bop Bodeop Doe
Now if Martha Mitchell was to address
a special meeting of the SDS,
If she told them her views on Vietnam,
Would they make her an honorary minuteman,

And if Governor Wallace was to come unglued,
and run for President in 72,
Could he carry all of the Southern states,
with Julian Bond for a running mate,

Now if the CIA, and the IRS, and the FCC,
Found out that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI owned stock in AT&T,
and the UAW, and the BNO, and the AFL and CIO, and the ICC,
and the BVDs, and the LSU and UCLA, and the OEO, and the KKK, and the PTA and the L&N, and the UPI and IBM, aww BS!

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About Lyrics and The Pope And The Dope by The Charlie Daniels Band

The lyrics to The Pope And The Dope are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Charlie Daniels Band used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to The Pope And The Dope have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Charlie Daniels Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Pope And The Dope by The Charlie Daniels Band. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Pope And The Dope" means the words set to the music of The Pope And The Dope, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Charlie Daniels Band. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Pope And The Dope and the lyrics to The Pope And The Dope are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Charlie Daniels Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Pope And The Dope, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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