Lyr/Chords Req: Draft Dodgers Blues

25 Oct 01 - 05:12 PM (#579804)
Subject: Draft Dodgers Blues
From: captain wheels

Does anyone have the word for the draft dodgers blues.Basically its a song about aguy avoiding the Vietnam War and he has every ailment under the sun.Idon't know who sings it and can only remember that one of the chorus lines is "and my asthmas getting worse" Flat feet are also mentioned .

---

25 Oct 01 - 05:26 PM (#579809)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Draft Dodgers Blues
From: GUEST,harvey andrews

It's "The draft dodger Rag" by Phil Ochs if that's a help

---

25 Oct 01 - 06:04 PM (#579832)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Draft Dodgers Blues
From: TamthebamfraeScotland

The words are

I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town I believe in God and senator Dodd and in keeping old Castro down 'n' 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 waht I said

Ch 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 Oh think of 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 defence plant

I've got a disloctated disc and a racked up back I'm alleric to flowers and bugs and when the bombshell hits I get epileptic fits and I'm a additic to a thousands drugs I got the weakness woes I can't touch my toes I can hardly reach my knees and if anyone came close to me I'd probably start to sneeze

I hate chou en-Li and I hope he dies but one thing you gotta see that someone gotta go over there and that someone isn't me so I wish you well Sarge give them hell yeah kill a thousnad or so and if you ever get a war without the blood a gore well I'll be the first to go.

This is from Tom Hamliton Draft dodger rag by Phil ochs

---

25 Oct 01 - 06:23 PM (#579857)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Draft Dodgers Blues
From: captain wheels

Thanks alot. What about chords?

---

18 Mar 06 - 09:14 AM (#1696875)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Draft Dodger Rag (Phil Ochs)
From: Jim Dixon

Chords are posted in this thread: Draft Dodging Songs?

---

Thread #54088   Message #835826
Posted By: BuckMulligan
27-Nov-02 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Draft Dodging Songs?
Subject: RE: Draft Dodging Songs?

Draft Dodger Rag was by Phil Ochs - best cover was by Chad Mitchell Trio.

G                                    G#/A
I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town
    D7                                                   G
I believe in God and Senator Dodd and keeping old Castro down
                                    G#   A
And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red
    D7                                                      G
But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:

                G
    Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen
          G#/A
       And I always carry a purse
          D7
    I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, and my asthma's
               G
       getting worse
                                                   G# A
    O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old
       invalid aunt
                D7
    Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school, and I'm
                            G
       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 the bombshell hits, I get epileptic fits
And I'm addicted to a thousand drugs
I got the weakness woes, and I can't touch my toes
I can hardly reach my knees
And if the enemy came close to me
I'd probably start to sneeze

(chorus)

I hate Chou En Lai, and I hope he dies,
but one thing you gotta see
That someone's gotta go over there
and that someone isn't me
So I wish you well, Sarge, give 'em Hell
Yeah, 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

(chorus)

---