What if the Civil War Were a Musical?

[GraniteStater]

What if the Civil War Were a Musical?

Here's a catchy tune from the second Act (melody: "Master of the House" from Le Miz):

Slap a little Habe
Blame it all on Abe
Throw your tush in jail 'til you be-ha-ave

In you go right now
Better like the chow
Forget about your lawyer an-y-how-ow

Peace reigns on the streets this evening
Isn't it so awful nice?
Bayonets and muskets gleaming
The populace are all like mice

Slap a little Habe
Blame it all on Abe
Throw your tush in jail 'til you be-ha-ave

In you go right now
Better like the chow
Forget about your lawyer an-y-how-ow

Wait until the war is over
Then you see your wife and kin
Should have joined up in Dover
Then you could've saved your skin

...etc

[Hobbes]

Reminds me of a night in the pub when a couple of us drunkenly started singing "Master of the House" and before we knew it everyone else in the pub joined in!
(maybe not everyone - but the drunk girl in the corner certainly joined in).

What is a Habe?

[GraniteStater]

On the Habeas Corpus RGD thread in the main forum, I was talking about Demos in NYC, and I used the expression "So I slapped a little Habe on 'em..."

Habeas, Habeas Corpus.