First Aid Kit - With God on Our Side
My name it means nothing
My age it means less
And the country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I was brought up there and taught there
The law to abide
And that the 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
And 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
And 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
With 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
I can't do it for you,
You got to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side
And now as I'm leaving
I'm weary as hell
The confusion I'm feeling
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
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