Holiday in Cambodia

You're a star-belly sneech | You suck like a leech | You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch | So you can get rich | But your boss gets richer off you
Well you'll work harder | With a gun in your back | For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers | Till you starve | Then your head is skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one | Now you can go where they get things done

What you need, my son…
Is a holiday in Cambodia | Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia | Where you'll kiss ass or crack
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, etc…
And it's a holiday in Cambodia | Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia | Where the slums got so much soul

- "Holiday in Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys

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Yesterday, my brother told me of his experience of sitting through a grim, grisly documentary of the murder of Filipino civilians in the 60s.  

This brought immediately to mind the Khmer Rouge genocide under dictator Pol Pot in Cambodia during the VietNam war era, perhaps best known to many through the award-winning "Killing Fields" film.  But, for me, the Dead Kennedys and its vocalist, Jello Biafra (aka Eric Reed Boucher) was the early 80s punk-era social protest band that made the definitive anti-Pol Pot comment in "Holliday in Cambodia".  

One of my very favorite bands of the era, Dead Kennedys put out much other controversial material, ranging from "Too Drunk to Fuck" to "Moral Majority".  Great stuff.  Jello Biafra made for a memorable live act.  And don't miss the drumming work of D.H. Peligro, added to the ensemble a bit later.

(As an aside: The band's name was not meant to insult the Kennedy family, but according to Biafra, "to bring attention to the end of the American Dream".)