Where Have All Our Heroes Gone Lyrics - Bill Anderson

(Bill Anderson - Bob Talbert) 

Where have all our heroes gone 

What's come over our great land 

America is still my home sweet home 

But where have all our heroes gone? 

I saw a group of boys the other day 

Standing in the corner of a playground 

Looking and laughin' at a magazine 

And I overheard one of the boys 

Said man is he ever cool 

And he pointed to the man 

Who's picture was on the magazine cover 

And everybody kinda said under their breath 

Yeah, he's cool alright. 

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And I got sick to my stomach 

Because I'd seen the cover 

And the man that they were talking about 

Had instigated a riot in one of our major cities last summer 

And the magazine was writing 

About how the police were unkind to him 

The judges were not fair with him 

And how he talked back and slung 

His long hair about and cussed 

And did his things and they made him into a regular hero. 

And inside this magazine was the story of a baseball player 

Who got involved with the gamblers 

Of the football player who said that football was not the end 

Just a means to an end. meanin' the girls and the good times 

And a story of a folk singer who proudly claims 

To be both a member of a party ailen 

To our government and a nontax payin' citizen. 

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These young boys read with open eyes and open minds 

And I thought to myself my God 

Are these the people that these young boys look up to 

Are these their idols, are these the heroes 

Of the now generation? 

(America is still my home sweet home) 

(But where have all our heroes gone?) 

I had heroes when I was a kid, we all did 

And our heroes did their thing too 

Like General Douglas McArthur 

Who returned like he said he would 

Like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers 

Who chased the bad guys right off the screen 

Like Lindberg who flew the ocean 

And Jesse Owens who showed Hitler 

And John Wayne and Gerry Cooper 

After all didn't they really win the war 

And General Ike bless your soul 

'Cause he made us feel safe. 

We've killed some of our recent heroes 

The Kennedys and Kings 

And even as great as their space feats are 

How many of the astronauts can you name huh how many 

My heroes were people like Joe DiMaggio 

Who proved that nice guys can finish first 

And Stan Musian who never had an unkind word for anybody 

And Winston Churchill who's two fingers 

Raised together meant victory. 

Not just a let-your-enemy-have-it-all kind of artificial peace 

This country needs a lotta things today friends 

But it doesn't need any one thing anymore 

Than it needs some real heroes. 

Men who know what it means 

To be looked up to by a griny faced kid 

Men who wanna sign autograph books 

And not deal under the table 

Men who are willing to play the game 

With the people who made them heroes 

Men who don't mind putting on a white hat 

And saying thank you and please 

I wish I knew more men that I'd be proud of 

For my son to look up to and say 

Daddy when I grow up I want to be just-like-him. 

(Where have all our heroes gone?)...