Our good mate and master musician David Rovics has given us a rough cut of a new song he’s written about the assassination of Dr. Tiller. As usual it’s a great song. If you’ve never caught David on tour, I assure you, you are missing out.

[audio:http://headonradionetwork.com/files/in-the-name-of-god.mp3]

Download “In the Name of God”

From David’s email yesterday

Hi folks,

Another doctor who provided abortions has been murdered in the US,
this time in Kansas. He had already been shot back in 1993. Google
Dr. George Tiller and you’ll find out lots more. I’ll get a scratchy
MP3 of the song up on http://www.myspace.com/davidrovics soon, but
here’s the lyric…

In the Name of God

I woke up this morning
And I turned on the news
It was a Sunday morning
They were sitting in the pews
The doctor’s wife was in the choir
She was about to sing
She saw it all in front of her
And she heard that awful ring

In the name of God he held his pistol
Pointed at the doctor’s head
In the name of God he pulled the trigger
Now the doctor’s lying dead

Dr. Tiller had a family
Three daughters and a son
Two girls were both doctors
Who were proud of what he’d done
They knew someone had to do something
Before they left this world behind
If it wasn’t them then who would serve
The cause of womankind

In the name of God…

This is not Afghanistan
It’s the Heartland USA
Where a girl has to wonder
If she’ll get acid in her face
Where they bomb the women’s clinics
Because the preacher told them to
Where the man there on the TV
Tells them that’s what they should do

In the name of God…

David Rovics

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Jon Fox