Lyrics With God on Our Side - The Neville Brothers

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