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Thread #17791 Message #1903818
Posted By: Rapparee
08-Dec-06 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: Songs About Vietnam War Part II
Subject: Lyr Add: DRAFT DODGER RAG (Phil Ochs)
I think Tom Paxton wrote the "Draft Dodger Rag" --
I'm just a typical American boy From a typical American town I believe in God and Senator Dodd And keepin' ol' 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 gettin' worse. Consider 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 workin' in a defense plant."