Written by Allen Ginsberg in 1975
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Performed by Rage Against the Machine
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Hadda be flashing like the Daily Double
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Hadda be playing on Tee Vee
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Hadda be loudmouthed on the Comedy Hour
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Hadda be announced over Loud Speakers
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CIA & Mafia are in Cahoots
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Hadda be said in old ladies' language
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Hadda be said in American Headlines
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Kennedy stretched & smiled & got doublecrossed by low life goons & Agents
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Rich bankers with Criminal Connections
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Dope pushers in CIA working with dope pushers from Cuba working with Big Time syndicate Tampa Florida
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Hadda be said with big mouth
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Hadda be moaned over Factory foghorns
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Hadda be chattered on Car Radio News Broadcast
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Hadda be screamed in the kitchen
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Hadda be yelled in the basement where uncles were fighting
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Hadda be Howled on the streets by Newsboys to bus conductors
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Hadda be foghorned into N.Y. Harbor
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Hadda echo under hard hats
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Hadda turn up the volume in University ballrooms
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Hadda be written in library books, footnoted
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Hadda be in headlines of the Times & Le Monde
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Hadda be barked over TV
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Hadda be heard in side alleys thru bar room doors
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Hadda be played on Wire Services
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Hadda be bells ringing, Comedians stopt dead in the middle of a joke in Las Vegas,
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Hadda be FBI chief J. E. Hoover & Frank Costello syndicate mouthpiece meeting in Central Park N.Y. together weekends reported posthumously Time magazine
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Hadda be the Mafia & CIA together
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started War on Cuba Bay of Pigs & Poison assassination headlines
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Hadda be Dope Cops & the Mafia
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sold all that Heroin in America
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Hadda be FBI & Organized Crime working together in Cahoots "against the Commies"
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let Lucky Luciano out of Jail take over Sicily Mediterranean drug trade
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Hadda be Corsican goons in Office Strategic Services' Pay busted 1948 dock strikes in Marseilles, sixties port transshipment Indochina heroin,
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Hadda be ringing on Multinational Cashregisters
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world-wide laundry for organized Criminal money
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Hadda be CIA & Mafia & FBI together
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bigger than Nixon, bigger than War.
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Hadda be a gorged throat full of murder
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Hadda be mouth and ass a solid mass of rage
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A Red hot head, a scream in the back of the throat
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Hadda be in Kissinger's brain
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Hadda be in Rockefeller's mouth
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Hadda be Central Intelligence The Family "Our Thing" the Agency Mafia Organized Crime FBI Dope Cops & Multinational Corporations
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one big set of Criminal gangs working together in Cahoots
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Hit Men murderers everywhere outraged, on the make
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Secret drunk Brutal Dirty Rich
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on top of a Slag heap of prisons, Industrial Cancer, plutonium smog, garbage cities, grandas' bedsores, Fathers' resentments
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Hadda be the Rulers wanted Law & Order they got rich on
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wanted Protection status quo, wanted Junkies wanted Attica Wanted Kent State Wanted War in Indochina
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Hadda be CIA & the Mafia & the FBI
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Multinational Capitalists' Strong arms squads, "Private detective Agencies for the very rich"
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And their Armies, Navies and Air Force bombing Planes.
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Hadda be Capitalism the Vortex of this rage, this
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competition man to man, horses' heads in the Capo's bed, Cuban turf & rumbles, hit men, gang wars across oceans,
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bombing Cambodia settled the score then Soviet Pilots manned Egyptian figher planes
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Chile's red democracy bumped off with White House pots & pans a warning to Mediterranean governments
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Secret Police embraced for decades, NKVD & CIA keep eachother's secrets, OGPU & DIA never hit their own, KGB & FBI one mind-brute force
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world-wide, and full of money
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Hadda be rich, hadda be powerful, hadda hire technology from Harvard
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Hadda murder in Indonesia 500,000
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Hadda murder in Indochina 2,000,000
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Hadda murder in Czechoslovakia
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Hadda murder in Chile
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Hadda murder in Russia
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Hadda murder in America
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Hadda Been Playing On The Jukebox
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