Toasting the New Year Before it's Toast (Revised and Reposted)

THEY’RE RIOTING IN AFRICA

I guess I did not remember very well the tune of this song sung by the Kingston Trio in my youth (--which is actually called "The Merry Minuet" and was written by Sheldon Harnick). Like everything else the original words are available on the web.
New correct version--
(To be sung to that tune–with apologies to all involved).


They’re rioting in Africa.
In Kenya they’re mad.
There’s temples bombed in India.
Afghanistan’s sad.
Al Quaeda is in Iraq
With tactics absurd.
The Shiites hate the Sunnis,
The Sunnis hate the Kurds.
Hez-bollah hates Israel,
And Israel hates Hamas.
And I don't like the outrageous price of gas.

But we can be happy and sappy you see,
In HD on big screens there's reality.
And we can be certain come e-lection day
The prevailing candidate
Will solve all of it right away.

They're rioting in Pakistan
There's strife in Iraq.
But as the coming year unfolds
You'll want to have the old year back.