I wrote a song

I wrote a song yesterday and I wanted to write a song about what freedom meant to me. At that very moment freedom was that I could go to the gas station and buy a mountain dew and a stick of beef jerky. The song emerged from me and the chorus went.


G C D C
You can't get beef jerky in Iraq
G C D C
all that gas to go no convenient sto
G C D C
if you want a snack and your living in Iraq
G C D C
You can't get beef jerky in Iraq

then it breaks into a round and we had quite the laugh with it.

I did a little research today and learned that dried and cured meats are actually pretty popular in Iraq. I found about a hundred different church groups that specialize in sending dried and cured meats to troops. So I don't know, I am thinking of maybe rewriting. There is a rap section of the song that really need the snack to rhyme with jerky. I might just record it as is and perhaps it will sound ironic or sarcastic or something I don't really know. I feel kinda dumb right now.