Pete Seeger - Draft Dodger Rag Lyrics

Lyrics Draft Dodger Rag - 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
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



Writer(s): Phil Ochs


Pete Seeger - A Link In the Chain
Album A Link In the Chain
date of release
03-09-1996

1 Living In the Country
2 My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away
3 Get Up and Go
4 Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
5 Never Wed An Old Man
6 Queen Anne Front
7 Cryderville Jail
8 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
9 This Land Is Your Land
10 Draft Dodger Rag
11 The Pill
12 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
13 My Name Is Liza Kalvelage
14 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
15 Guantanamera
16 Last Train to Nuremberg
17 Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
18 Oh, Freedom
19 We Shall Overcome
20 Coal Creek March
21 Pretty Boy Floyd
22 Hobo's Lullaby
23 Aimee Semple McPherson
24 The Cowboy's Lament
25 Jesse James
26 Belle Starr
27 Harry Sims
28 Mrs. McGrath
29 Jay Goulds Daughter
30 Nameless Lick
31 What Did You Learn In School Today?
32 Henry My Son
33 Put Your Finger In The Air
34 Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
35 This Old Car
36 Be Kind To Your Parents
37 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase




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