Help Save The Youth Of America Lyrics - Billy Bragg

Help save the youth of America 

Help save them from themselves 

Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys 

And the Californian girls 

When the lights go out in the rest of the World 

What do our cousins say 

They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun 

Till Daddy takes the gun away 

From the Big Church to the Big River 

And out to the Shining Sea 

This is the Land of Opportunity 

And there's a Monkey Trial on TV 

A nation with their freezers full 

Are dancing in their seats 

While outside another nation 

Is sleeping in the streets 

Don't tell me the old, old story 

Tell me the truth this time 

Is the Man in the Mask or the Indian 

An enemy or a friend of mine 

Help save the youth of America 

Help save the youth of the world 

Help save the boys in uniform 

Their mothers and their faithful girls 

Listen to the voice of the soldier 

Down in the killing zone 

Talking about the cost of living 

And the price of bringing him home 

They're already shipping the body bags 

Down by the Rio Grande 

But you can fight for democracy at home 

And not in some foreign land 

And the fate of the great United States 

Is entwined in the fate of us all 

And the incident at Tschernobyl proves 

The world we live in is very small 

And the cities of Europe have burned before 

And they may yet burn again 

And if they do I hope you understand 

That Washington will burn with them 

Omaha will burn with them 

Los Alamos will burn with them