I don’t think this idea for a lyric worked very well and I don’t think NewsRevue used this lyric.
LIBERIA
(To the Tune of “America”)
CHORUS 1
Life is no good in Liberia,
Famine and war and hysteria,
Leprosy, AIDS and diphtheria,
Toss hand grenades in Liberia.VERSE 1
Former American colony,
Product of trading in slavery (very);
Characters names sound like Mark Twain,
But soon as you learn them they’re slain.CHORUS 2
Life is no good in Liberia,
Peacekeeping force from Nigeria,
Most would agree that’s inferior,
No-one feels free in Liberia.VERSE 2
More fighting in Cape Mesurado,
Lining up forming a warfare queue (fa’ queue);
Roosevelt Johnson leads from the front,
But everyone says he’s a Krahn.
(That doesn’t rhyme with front??)CHORUS 3
Life is the pits in Liberia,
Whole bunch of shits in Liberia;
Fight mercenaries in Monrovia,
Get dysentery and diarrhoea.
Below is America from West Side Story with lyrics on the screen, after a lengthy (circa three minutes) build up: