Video: "The Ugly American" by Ithaka (from the album, Somewhere South Of Somalia)

"The Ugly American" is a song from my third album 


Somewhere South Of Somalia
(available on itunes etc: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/somewhere-south-of-somalia/id69363827)


written during a two-month solo mission into East Africa. 


Unfortunately the hi-res video made by
an anonymous L.A.C.C. film student has been lost forever 


and all that remains is this damaged copy. 




lyrics:
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THE UGLY AMERICAN
lyrics: ithaka – music conley abrams III

Sold the house in LA, apartment New York
Twenty-hour nonstop to Nairobi airport

Bought a deluxe black Range Rover
With tinted windows and cd-sorter

Bought a map, headed for coast
Bought thirty-acres beachfront and brand new boat

Paid natives to burn down trees
Who the hell were they to disagree ?

Needed room for tennis court and swimming pool
In this land too, rich usually rule

Built a house like no house ever seen
Fifteen bedrooms all fit for kings

A year later, palace complete
Bel Aire mansion in the African heat

HE’S PAID HIS DUES 
HE’S PAID THE PRICE TWICE
BUT HIS SOUL WILL ROT IN PARADISE

Electric fence, five-meters high
Keep out the crooks, but the monkeys die

But he’s a Man and a man has to protect his land
From thieves and thugs trying to get the upper hand

A satellite dish and internet
Alone he drinks gin at sunset

Out on the veranda overlooking the sea
Indeed he pretends to be pleased


No convenience did he sacrifice
Cuz he’s got the goods, he got the merchandise

He raped his maid, but what can she do ?
Her mama needs medicine, her kids need food

But he’s a Man, bad man, sick man, evil man
But a rich man and rich men rule the land

Killed a rhino while he smoked a cigar
High-powered shot from a moving car

Paid a bribe to the game park ranger
To keep his identity a stranger

HE’S PAID HIS DUES 
HE’S PAID THE PRICE TWICE
BUT HIS SOUL WILL ROT IN PARADISE