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by Phil Ochs


This is the way Phil played it at the Democratic Convention......


                                      
I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town.
                                                          
I believe in God and Senator Dodd and in keeping old Castro down.
                                         
And when it came my time to serve, I knew better dead than red.
                                                         
But when I got to my ol' draft board, buddy this is what I said:

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"Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen,
      
And I always carry a purse.
                                                                   
I got eyes like a bat, and my feet are flat, and my asthma's getting worse.
                                              
Oh, think of my career, my sweetheart dear, my poor old invalid aunt.
           
Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm going to school,
                             
And I'm working in a defense plant.

        
I got a dislocated disc, and a racked up back,
      
I'm allergic to flowers and bugs,
             
And when the bombshell hits 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 reach 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, and that someone isn't me.
     
So I wish you well, Sarge, give 'em hell,
      
Yeah, kill me a thousand or so.
           
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore,
                          
Well I'll be the first to go.


my friend tabbed it so i wont take credit