A More Perfect Union

Are we ready to go?

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger?

Shall some transatlantic giant step the earth and crush us at a blow?

Never

All the armies of Europe and Asia could not, by force

Take a drink from the Ohio River

Or set a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years

If destruction be our lot

We ourselves must be its author and finisher

As a nation of free men

We will live forever or die by suicide

There'll be no more counting the cars

On the Garden State Parkway

Nor waiting for the Fung Wash bus

To carry me to who knows where

And when I stand tonight 'neath the lights of the Fenway

Will I not yell like hell for the glory of the Newark Bears?

'Cause where I'm going to now, no one can ever hurt me

Where the well of human hatred is shallow and dry

Oh, I never wanted to change the world

But I'm looking for a new New Jersey

'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to die

I'm doing 70 on 17, I'm doing 80 over 84

And I never let the Meritt Parkway magnetize me no more

Give me a brutal Somerville summer

Give me a cruel New England winter

Give me the great Pine Barrens

So I can see them turned into splinters

'Cause if I come in on a donkey, let me go out on a gurney

What I realize too late, I never should have left New Jersey, woo

Whoa-ohh-ohh, whoa-ohh-ohh

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Yeah, yeah

Whoa-ohh-ohh, whoa-ohh-ohh

I sense the enemy, they're rustling around in the trees

Oh, I thought I had gotten away but the followed me to 02143

Woe, woe is me, no one knows the trouble I see

When they hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree

I'll sit beneath the leaves and weep

Oh, none of us shall be saved, every man will be a slave

For John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave

And there's rumblings down in the cave

So if it's time for choosing sides

And to show this dirty city how we do the Jersey Slide

And if it deserves a better class of criminal

Then I'ma give it to them tonight

So, we'll rally around the flag, rally around the flag

Rally around the flag, boys, rally once again

Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom

Rally around the flag, rally around the flag

Glory, glory, hallelujah, His truth is marching on

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice

On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write

With moderation

I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse

And I will not retreat a single inch