With God On Our Side

Oh my name it means nothing And my age it means less For the country I come from Is called the Midwest I was taught and brought up To the laws to abide That the land that I live in Has God on its side Oh the history books tell it They tell it so well The Calvaries charged And the Indians fell The calvaries charged And the Indians died Oh The Country was young then With God on its side The Spanish-American War had its day And the civil war to us 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 The First World War It came and it went And the reason for fighting I never did get But I learned to accept it Accept it with pride For you don't count the dead, when God's on your side In the nineteen-sixties Came the Vietnam war Can someone tell me What we were fighting for? So many young men died So many mothers cried No I ask the question Was God on our side? I learned to hate the Russians All through my whole life If another war comes It's them must fight And to hate them and fear To run and to hide And accept it all bravely With God on my side Through many dark hours I've been thinkin' bout' this That Jezus 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 Ohw now as I'm leaving I'm weary as hell The confusion I"m feeling Ain't 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 Jezus loves me, this I know