Help Save The Youth Of America

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Help save the youth of America
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Help save them from themselves
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Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys
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And the Californian girls


[Verse 1]
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When the lights go out in the rest of the World
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What do our cousins say
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They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun
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Till Daddy takes the gun away

[Verse 2]
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From the Big Church to the Big River
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And out to the Shining Sea
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This is the Land of Opportunity
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And there's a Monkey Trial on TV

[Verse 3]
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A nation with their freezers full
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Are dancing in their seats
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While outside another nation
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Is sleeping in the streets

[Verse 4]
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Don't tell me the old, old story
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Tell me the truth this time
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Is the Man in the Mask or the Indian
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An enemy or a friend of mine


[Chorus]
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Help save the youth of America
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Help save the youth of the world
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Help save the boys in uniform
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Their mothers and their faithful girls


[Verse 5]
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Listen to the voice of the soldier
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Down in the killing zone
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Talking about the cost of living
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And the price of bringing him home

[Verse 6]
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They're already shipping the body bags
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Down by the Rio Grande
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But you can fight for democracy at home
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And not in some foreign land

[Verse 7]
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And the fate of the great United States
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Is entwined in the fate of us all
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And the incident at Chernobyl proves
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The world we live in is very small

[Verse 8]
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And the cities of Europe have burned before
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And they may yet burn again
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And if they do I hope you understand
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That Washington will burn with them
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Omaha will burn with them
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Los Alamos will burn with them