Joan Baez — With God on Our Side

Oh my name it is nothin' My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest Was brought up there and taught there The law to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side Oh the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalries charged And the Indians fell The cavalries charged And the Indians died Oh the country was young With God on its side Oh the Spanish-American War had its day And the Civil War too Was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I was taught to memorize With their guns in their hands And God on their side Well World War One It came and it went The reason for fighting I never did get But I learned to accept it And accept it with pride For you don't count the dead When God's on your side Oh the Second World War, boys It came to an end We forgave the Germans And called them our friends Though they killed six million In the ovens they fried The Germans now too Have God on their side Oh I've learned to hate Russians All through my whole life If another war starts It's them we must fight To hate them and fear them To run and to hide And accept it all bravely With God on my side And now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button We shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side For many long years I've thought about this That Jesus 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 And now as I'm leavin' I'm weary as Hell The confusion I'm feelin' No tongue can tell The words fill my head And they fall to the floor If God is on our side He'll stop the next war