[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 146 (Saturday, October 8, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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                         I LEFT MY HAT IN HAITI

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                         HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 7, 1994

  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, when walking your precincts back in Tacoma 
this month, here's a little ditty you can sing to yourself. It's a song 
made famous by Fred Astaire in the 1951 MGM musical ``Royal Wedding.'' 
When you're humming this tune, remember that the self-excommunicated, 
Marxist, ex-priest Aristide is not worth one drop--not one drop--of 
American blood. Not a drop of the blood of wounded-in-action S/Sgt. Ron 
Holstead should have been shed in Haiti for Aristide.

                         I LEFT MY HAT IN HAITI

       I left my hat in Haiti.
       In some forgotten flat in Haiti. I couldn't tell you how I 
     got there. I only know it was so hot there. She took my hat 
     politely.
       And wound her arms around me tightly.
       But I remember nothing clearly. Except the flame when she 
     came near me. Her eyes had the glow of surrender. And her 
     touch, it was tender.
       And with someone as fairy as that you forget about your 
     hat. So if you go to Haiti.
       There is a girl I know in Haiti, if you can find her you'll 
     adore.
       Just look around till you've found someone who has a blue 
     gray fedora, I think of that gorgeous creature when I'm all 
     along. When ever I do from down inside there comes a groan. 
     That son of a gun in Haiti has got the prettiest hat I own. 
     And when it is bleak and chilly and life is flat. I think of 
     that Haitian dilly, And think I'd better go get my hat.

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