Not gonna lie.
When I heard the news just now, I immediately thought back to 1979/1980. To this guy's predecessor. And this one-hit-wonder which became a big radio replay hit back when that Ayatollah became, practically overnight, the newest baddie, the face of the proverbial "enemy we all loved to hate."
My fifteen year old self was so hankering to hear Ted Koppel or Dan Rather break-in to regularly scheduled programming to announce that US forces had "taken out" the Ayatollah and restored freedom to Iran. Yes, naive, since Carter would never have authorized a "hit" on a foreign world leader since that action was illegal for even the CIA to do it. Plus, was Iran "free" under the Shah? Far from it. But at least it wasn't fanatic... and that was scarier than a despotic dictator, or so we assumed.
Did I head nod aggressively with typical jingoistic American teen boy bravura to the song posted above? You bet. Did I get a little bit of that old feeling back today after hearing the news that this new one was dead at the hands of a US led attack? Yep. Not gonna lie.
Here's a few other parodies done back in the day. Kids today have no idea how big the Iran Hostage Crisis was for everyday Americans, and, the Western world as evidenced by these British and Norwegian videos.
Oh, and here's a recent one done for the newly-departed Ayatollah just a year ago.
Yes, as grizzly as it may sound, I'm not gonna lie, I don't think I'm alone in grinning, just a little bit, for some frail old man's violent exit from this Earth. I think we're better off without him. Of course now we have to wonder, what comes after him?
EDIT: Oh you gotta love the incredibly bombastic language that these regimes use when referring to their "supreme leaders" and this guy, announcing on Iranian TV the death of the Ayatollah, doesn't disappoint one bit. "Drank the sweet, pure draught of martyrdom." I know it's a translation but I'm sure the Farsi was just as over-the-top.
Also, not gonna lie about this fact either... this shit should pretty much stall out where we're at since I don't think it'd go well if Trump decided he wanted to "press on." Iran, leadership reconfigured or not, can still very well defend itself and if Trump even thinks sending American "boots on the ground" would go well, I implore his generals to remind themselves of the lessons so aptly taught in a movie I happened to rewatch tonight, Gallipoli. And if they heed not what an assault by foreign troops brainwashed into blindly following the "call of duty" on a hotly-defended homeland looks like, then they best play this tune at all those military funerals.