With God On Our Side - Live

Lyrics

My name, it means nothing, my age, it means less And the country I come from is called the Midwest Was brought up there and taught there, the law to abide And in the land that I live in has God on its side [Verse 2] Oh, the history books tell it, they tell it so well The cavalries charged, the Indians fell The cavalries charged, and the Indians died Oh, the country was young with God on its side [Verse 3] Oh, the Spanish-American War had its day And the Civil War too was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I was made to memorize With guns in their hands and God on their side [Verse 4] Well World War I, it came and it went The reason for fightin' I never did get But I learned to accept it, and accept it with pride For you don't count the dead when God's on your side [Verse 5] The Second World War, boys, it came to an end We forgave the Germans, and called them our friends Though they murdered six million, in the ovens they fried The Germans now too have God on their side [Verse 6] I learned to hate Russians all through my whole life If another war starts, it's them we must fight To hate them and fear them, to run and to hide And accept it all bravely with God on my side [Verse 7] And now we've got weapons of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to, then fire them we must One push of the button and they shot the world wide And you never ask questions when God's on your side [Verse 8] For many long years, I thought about this That Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss I can't do it for you, you'll have to decide Whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side [Verse 9] So now as I'm leavin', I'm weary as hell The confusion I'm feelin', no tongue can tell The words fill my head, and they fall to the floor That if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war