Draft Dodger Rag (Album Version)

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 and 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 ***

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

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 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

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

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