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The Taliban Song

When the wind is right, concerts at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View can be heard clearly at our house in Palo Alto.

Tonight, it's incredibly monotonous country music in the "big hat, no cattle" style. Internet research has now revealed it to be the creative work of someone named Toby Keith.

The only thing that changes from number to number is the key. And I think there have been three keys so far.

Sing "The Taliban Song," Toby! He writes:

I was watching CNN and thinking about those everyday people surviving the bombardment in Afghanistan. You know, what if you're a peace-loving guy in Afghanistan and you're watching Taliban TV, and they're trying to tell you, "It's all under control" while American planes are dropping bombs? You don't want any part of that. So it's a "get the hell out of Dodge" song for an Afghan man. We recorded it on the road in Alabama.