Naked Raygun

Rat Patrol

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We could use those men in tan.
You say what do we know.
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh.
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh.

What do we need to take control
We could use the rat patrol

What's that coming over the dune?
Yea well that's what we know
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh.
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh

Chasing them halftracks
Across the sand flats.
Got a nice pine box for that desert fox.
Machine guns blaring
And Arabs staring
Wondering why the Westerners are there.
It's the same old story
And it never ends. It'll happen again. Whoah oh oh oh oh......

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vanillablue On Nov 16, 2007

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by moik

6y ago

I'm pretty sure that the guys in Naked Raygun are the same age as me. When I was a little kid there used to be a TV series called Rat Patrol that was only on for a year or two but was pretty popular, especially with boys. A small group of brave solders, referred to as the "rat patrol," battling the Germans in the desert. They'd tie a bunch of branches behind their few vehicles and speed around the Sahara raising up a bunch of dust to make it look like there were a bunch of vehicles in their convoy and somehow scare the Germans with this maneuver. It seems like all the lyrics in the song are referring to that TV show.

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