Has He Left Yet?

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Go General: go to Portland, go to the forests, run among the salmon, swim among the bears, fly among the deer. Your leadership, your occasional tugging at your little soldier, the odd sense that we have never met before, these things will be made less clear in time. Be free, dear General, but make time to bathe--don't stop bathing just because you are free--the French tried that and no one liked them anymore.

While you are gone we will man the fort as soon as we figure out what that means. In the meantime, a song before you go...

ODE TO THE GENERAL WHO IS GOING TO OREGON

Oh, General
General JC Christian, you are free, free
To go to Portland, in Oregon
A state as big as you or me
Oregon, by the sea

Oh, General, while you're there
Take care, take care
What looks like love could mean beware
Be careful there
In Oregon, by the sea

(chorus)
Oregon
Man, there's a lot of farmers
And some pagan freaks
And children of the hippy folk
And some guy named Rajneesh
Say goodbye to the trees
And don't get arrested there
Oregon, you know we would
Make love to you on old Mount Hood
Oregon, we love you too much!

I hear it's fun to get spanked in Oregon
They don't call it correction in Eugene
Sometimes the spanking helps a guy
Depends on his predilections
In Oregon

Oregon
At least they try to be nice
More like Christ than Herod
The western half gets lots of rain
The eastern's rather arid
In Oregon
Where the General is going

(chorus)
Oregon
Man, there's a lot of farmers
And some pagan freaks
And children of the hippy folk
And some guy named Rajneesh
Say goodbye to the trees
And don't get arrested there
Oregon, you know we would
Make love to you on old Mount Hood
Oregon, we love you too much!

(softly)
Oh, General
General JC Christian, you are free, free
To go to Portland, in Oregon
A state as big as you or me
Oregon, by the sea

Oh, General, while you're there
Take care, take care
What looks like love could mean beware
Be careful there
In Oregon, by the sea

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