Richard Nixon, who was then Vice-President, made a good will tour of South America.
So good was the will, when his motorcade reached the University of San Marcos in Lima,
he was promptly stoned by a horde of Peruvian dissidents.
Magical Lima
Magical Lima
Magical Lima,
Oh, what enchantment!
Oh, how sublime!
It was over 40 years ago,
I fell in love for the first and only time.Magical Lima,
I saw this vixen there---
I fell in love with her
While she was stoning
Vice-President Nixon there.Never such beauty,
Never such charms before;
I'd never seen such a face,
Such a figure
And such pitching arms before!I looked again
And felt my head begin to spin---
For up till then,
I'd always been
Republicin.
But once our bodies touched,
What could I do?
Since Lima was magical,
I stoned him, too.
Stoning!
Both of us stoning!
Oh, how delicious!Maybe this wasn't
What I was taught to feel,
But I felt "togetherness"
Which then was the thing
All Americans ought to feel.I said, "For you, dear,
"I just put a pox on him!",
But she said, "You cheated,
"You only threw pebbles
"While others threw rocks on him!"She left me cold---
I knew I'd never be the same;
I soon was told
The CIA had got my name.
I couldn't go home again---
That much was clear---
But Lima was magical,
And she was here.So for forty years
Outside San Marcos I stand now,
Though I know her heart is numb;
For the love of my darling
I stand with rock in hand now
Waiting for
Another Vice-President to come!
