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Radar

by Fred Gardner

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MASH was set in Korea, but the War in Vietnam was the lens through which we saw it.

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You wore granny glasses before it was hip
Once found a paperback Tao Te Ching
A Specialist 4 on a Korean trip
Oh Radar O'Reilly of thee I sing

Really, O'Reailly, on you we depend
to hear incoming wounded so distant
and when a patient needs something from Seoul
Your requirision's persistent

If Hot Lips is snitching so no one can smoke
You are the one who must stop her
Trapper and Hawkeye can drink gin and joke
Knowing you canceled her chopper

Who cuts the orders, who puts through the call?
Payroll and mail —who disburses?
Radar you are most essential of all
Someday may you score with the nurses

Oh really, O'Reilly right by his side
"Colonel, here's what we need. sir"
O Henry is finding it hard to decide
And you can't just say "Here's how to lead, sir"

You wear granny glasses not to be hip
The leader ideal in the Tao Te Ching
A Specialist Four on a Korean trip
Oh Radar O'Reilly of thee I sing!

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released February 25, 2014
Words and music: Fred Gardner
Produced by Jason Berk

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