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Help save the youth of America |
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Help save them from themselves |
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Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys |
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And the Californian girls |
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When the lights go out in the rest of the world |
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What do our cousins say |
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They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun |
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Till daddy takes the gun away |
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From the big church to the big river |
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And out to the shining sea |
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This is the land of opportunity |
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And there's a Monkey Trial on TV |
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A nation with their freezers full |
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Are dancing in their seats |
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While outside another nation |
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Is sleeping in the streets |
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Don't tell me the old, old story |
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Tell me the truth this time |
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Is the man in the mask or the Indian |
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An enemy or a friend of mine |
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Help save the youth of America |
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Help save the youth of the world |
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Help save the boys in uniform |
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Their mothers and their faithful girls |
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Listen to the voice of the soldier |
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Down in the killing zone |
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Talking about the cost of living |
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And the price of bringing him home |
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They're already shipping the body bags |
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Down by the Rio Grande |
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But you can fight for democracy at home |
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And not in some foreign land |
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And the fate of the great United States |
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Is entwined in the fate of us all |
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And the incident at Tschernobyl proves |
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The world we live in is very small |
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And the cities of Europe have burned before |
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And they may yet burn again |
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And if they do, I hope you understand |
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That Washington will burn with them |
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Omaha will burn with them |
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Los Alamos will burn with them |
