Lyrics
So you're tired of America
You're tired of having clothes to wear
And shoes on your feet and enough to eat
You're fed up with the opportunity to find
A job and make at least a decent living
You want to change it all
Revolutionize, demonstrate, march, fight in the streets
And you want me to join you
Well we'd better stand up on our feet
We'd better think before we speak
These are the things that make a nation weak
So you're sick of our flag
To you the red, white and blue no longer stands
Old Glory, the symbol of freedom has lost its meaning
Bring Old Glory down, stomp it, burn it, turn your back on it
Bring it down to stay
And while you're making a firebomb and growing long hair
Your brother is dying in Vietnam
You've forgotten that you are an American
Well we'd better stand up on our feet
We'd better think before we speak
These are the things that make a nation weak
Well have we thought about what we can do for our country
Instead of trying to make it weak?
Have we thought about what the black
Man and the white man can do together
And I don't mean in the streets
Have we thought about those who have no arms and legs to fight with
And those who can't speak, what have we done for them?
Have we thought about what we can do to improve our schools
Instead of trying to degrade them?
Who are we trying to impress anyway, ourselves or our friends?
What difference will it make fifty years from now to us?
But what about the child you're rearing?
Or is the hammer and sickle more appealing
To you than the symbol of freedom?
Well we'd better stand up on our feet
We'd better think before we speak
These are the things that make a nation weak
So grow long hair, wear dirty clothes, curse the police
Burn your draft card, destroy our flag, disown our nation
Hijack an airplane, march in the streets
Forget that you're an American
Destroy yourself and I'll see you in hell
'Cause that's what it's gonna be like after we're through
The great eagle no longer flies but lies dead and silent