"The Draft Dodger Rag" lyrics - PETE SEEGER
I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town
I believe in God and Senator Todd and keeping old Castro down
And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red
But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:
Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen
And I always carry a purse
I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, and my asthma's
Getting worse
O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old
Invalid aunt
Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school, and I'm
Working in a defense plant
I've got a dislocated disc and a racked up back
I'm allergic to flowers and bugs
And when bombshells hit, I get epileptic fits
And I'm addicted to a thousand drugs
I got the weakness woes, I can't touch my toes
I can hardly touch my knees
And if the enemy came close to me
I'd probably start to sneeze
I hate Chou En Lai, and I hope he dies,
But one thing you gotta see
That someone's gotta go over there
But that someone isn't me
So I wish you well, Sarge, give 'em Hell
Yeah kill me a thousand or more
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore
Well I'll be the first to go
Dangerous Songs!? (1966)
- Robin The Bobbin
- Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
- Little Jack Horner
- Die Gedanken Sind Frei
- Jackaro
- Never Wed An Old Man
- John Brown's Body
- Going Across The Mountains
- The Death Of Harry Simms
- King Henry
- Ode To Joy
- Goliath (A Nursery Rhyme)
- Queen Anne Front (And Mary Anne Behind)
- Casey Jones
- One Grain Of Sand
- The Pill
- The Draft Dodger Rag
- Mao Tse Tung
- Walking Down Death Row
- Two From Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five / Perchance To Wing
- Full Fathom Five
- Perchance To Win
- Beans In My Ears
- Equinoxial
- What Next?