It had to be flashing like the Daily Double
It had to be playing on TV
It had to be loudmouthed on the comedy hour
It had to be announced over loud speakers
The CIA and Mafia are in cahoots
It had to be said in old ladies language
It had to be said in American Headlines
Kennedy stretched and smiled and got double-crossed by lowlife goons and agents.
Rich bankers with criminal connections
Dope pushers in C I A working with dope pushers from Cuba working with big time syndicate Tampa Florida
It had to be said with a big mouth
it had to be moaned over factory foghorns
it had to be chattered on car radio news broadcasts
it had to be screamed in the kitchen
I had to be yelled in the basement
Where uncles were fighting.
It had to be howled on the streets by
Newsboys to bus conductors
It had to be foghorned into New York harbor
It had to echo under hard hats
It had to turn up the volume in university ballrooms
It had to be written in library books, footnoted
It had to be in the headlines of the Times and Le Monde
It had to be barked over TV
It had to be heard in side alleys thru bar room doors
It had to be played on wire services
it had to be bells ringing
Comedians stop dead in the middle of a joke in Las Vegas
It had to be F B I chief J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Costello syndicate mouthpiece meeting in
Central Park, New York together weekends
reported Time magazine.
It had to be the Mafia and the C I A together
Started war on Cuba Bay of Pigs
And poison assassination headlines
It had to be dope cops and the mafia
Sold all their heroin in America
It had to be the F B I and organized crime working together in cahoots “Against the commies”
Let lucky Luciano out of Jail Take over Sicily Mediterranean Drug trade
It had to be Corsican goons in Office strategic services pay busted 1948 dock strikes in Marseilles
Sixties port transshipment Indochina heroin
It had to be ringing on multinational cash registers
World-wide laundry for organized criminal money
It had to be the CIA and the mafia and the FBI together
Bigger than Nixon, bigger than war
It had to be a gorged throat full of murder
It had to be mouth and ass a solid mass of rage
it had to be a Red hot head, a
scream in the back of the throat
It had to be in Kissinger’s brain
it had to be in Rockefeller’s mouth
it had to be central intelligence
The family “Our Thing” the Agency mafia
Organized crime FBI Dope Cops and Multinational Corporations
One big set of gangs working together in cahoots
Hit men murderers everywhere
Outraged, on the make
Secret
drunk
Brutal
Dirty Rich
On top of a slag heap of prisons,
Industrial cancer, Plutonium smog,
Garbage cities, grandmas’ bedsores,
Fathers’ resentments
It had to be the rulers wanted
Law and order and they got rich
On wanted protection status quo
Wanted junkies, wanted Attica
wanted Kent state
wanted war in Indochina
It had to be the CIA and the mafia and the FBI
Multinational capitalists’ Strong arms squads
“Private detective agencies for the very rich”
and their Armies, Navies and Air Force bombing planes
It had to be capitalism the vortex of this rage,
this competition Man to man, horses’ heads in a capo’s bed,
Cuban turf and rumbles, hit men, gang wars across oceans
Bombing Cambodia settled the score then soviet pilots
Manned Egyptian fighter planes
Chiles’ red democracy bumped off withwhite house pots and pans a warning to Mediterranean governments
Secret police embraced for decades
NKVD and CIA keep each other’s secrets
OGPU and DIA never hit their own
The KGB and the FBI
One mind,Brute force, worldwide and full of money
One mind,Brute force, worldwide and full of money
It had to be rich, it had to be powerful
It had to hire technology from Harvard
It had to murder in Indonesia 500,000
It had to murder in Indochina 2,000,000
It had to murder in Czechoslovakia
It had to murder in Chile
It had to murder in Russia
And they had to murder in America