Draft Dodger Rag (LP版)

Draft Dodger Rag (LP版) - Phil Ochs

Oh I'm just a typical American boy

From a typical American town

I believe in God and Senator Dodd

And a 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

Yes think of my career

My sweetheart dear

And my poor old invalid aunt

Besides I ain't no fool

I'm a going to school

And I'm working in a dee fense plant

I've 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 ***

I got the weakness woes

I can't touch my toes

I can hardly reach my knees

And if the enemy ever came close to me

Well I'd probably start to sneeze

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

My asthma's getting worse

Consider my career

My sweetheart dear

My poor old invalid aunt

Besides I ain't no fool

I'm a going to school

And I'm working in a defense plant

I hate Chou En Lai

And I hope he dies

But I think you gotta see

That if someone's gotta go over there

That someone isn't me

So have a ball Sarge

Watch em fall

Yeah kill me a thousand or so

And if you ever get a war

Without any gore

Well I'll be the first to go

Yes 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

My asthma's getting worse

Yes consider my career

My sweetheart dear

My rubber tree plant

Besides I ain't no fool

I'm a going to school

And I'm working in a defense plant