With God On Our Side lyrics

Artist  : Ramblin` Jack Elliot 
Song : With God On Our Side
 


Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means
less
The country I come from
Is called the
Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The
laws to abide
And that land that I live
in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history
books tell it
They tell it so well
The
cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The
cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the
country was young
With God on its
side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had
its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid
away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to
memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on
their side.

Oh the First World War,
boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for
fighting
I never got straight
But I learned
to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you
don't count the dead
When God's on your
side.

When the Second World War
Came to
an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were
friends
Though they murdered six million
In
the ovens they fried
The Germans now
too
Have God on their side.

I've
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.

But now we
got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire
them we're forced to
Then fire them we
must
One push of the button
And a shot the
world wide
And you never ask questions
When
God's on your side.

In a many dark
hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That
Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I
can't think for you
You'll have to
decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on
his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm
weary as Hell
The confusion I'm
feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words
fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's
on our side
He'll stop the next war.