Call me late to the party, but I just found Aaron Neville. Yes, I have heard him before but often confused him with the lead from Fine Young Cannibals \ud83d\ude09 In any case, I grabbed 50 or so of his songs and have been replaying this Bob Dylan tune for a while now. It is amazing what an anti-war person I am becoming. I have always believed in peace but something is happening to me. I kinda like it =)<\/p>\n
Lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n —-<\/p>\n With God On Our Side<\/a><\/p>\n Oh, my name it ain’t nothin’, Oh, the history books tell it, The Spanish-American The First World War, boys, The Second World War, boys, In the 1960s, came the Viet-Nam War; I’ve learned to hate Russians [LAST TWO LINES IN PUBLISHED VERSION:] [VERSE OMITTED:] Through many a dark hour Now as I’m leavin’ With God on Our Side – Bob Dylan (1963)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Call me late to the party, but I just found Aaron Neville. Yes, I have heard him before but often confused him with the lead from Fine Young Cannibals \ud83d\ude09 In any case, I grabbed 50 or so of his songs and have been replaying this Bob Dylan tune for a while now. It is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-or-so-it-is-called","category-music","category-politics","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMy age it means less.
\nThe country I come from
\nIs called the Midwest.
\nI’s taught and brought up there
\nThe laws to abide
\nThat the land that I live in
\nHas God on its side.<\/p>\n
\nThey tell it so well:
\nThe cavalries charged,
\nThe Indians fell.
\nThe cavalries charged,
\nThe Indians died —
\nOh, the country was young,
\nWith God on its side.<\/p>\n
\nWar had its day,
\nAnd the Civil War, too, was
\nSoon laid away.
\nAnd the names of the heroes
\nI was made to memorize,
\nWith guns in their hands
\nAnd God on their side.<\/p>\n
\nIt came and it went;
\nThe reason for fighting
\nI never did get.
\nBut I learned to accept it,
\nAccept it with pride;
\nFor you don’t count the dead
\nWhen God’s on your side.<\/p>\n
\nIt came to an end.
\nWe forgave the Germans,
\nAnd then we were friends.
\nThough they murdered six million,
\nIn the ovens they fried,
\nThe Germans now, too, have
\nGod on their side.<\/p>\n
\nCan somebody tell me
\nWhat we’re fightin’ for?
\nToo many young men died,
\nToo many young mothers cried;
\nSo I ask the question,
\nWas God on our side?<\/p>\n
\nAll through my whole life.
\nIf another war comes,
\nIt’s them we must fight.
\nTo hate them and fear them,
\nTo run and to hide,
\nYou never ask questions
\nWhen God’s on your side.<\/p>\n
\n[And accept it all bravely
\nWith God on my side.]<\/p>\n
\n[But now we got weapons
\nOf the chemical dust.
\nIf fire them we’re forced to,
\nThen fire them we must.
\nOne push of the button,
\nAnd a shot the world wide;
\nAnd you never ask questions
\nWhen God’s on your side.]<\/p>\n
\nI been thinkin’ ’bout this,
\nHow Jesus Christ was
\nBetrayed by a kiss.
\nBut I can’t think for you,
\nYou have to decide
\nWhether Judas Iscariot had
\nGod on his side.<\/p>\n
\nI’m weary as Hell.
\nThe confusion I’m feelin’
\nAin’t no tongue can tell.
\nThe words fill my head
\nAnd fall to the floor;
\nAnd if God is on our side,
\nHe’ll stop the next war.<\/p>\n