Is what my mother said to me,
As she kissed my cheek
And shipped me off to the seventh cavalry.
And, though the draft was mandatory,
Insofar as I could see,
There wasn't much to be gained
For av'rage folks like you and me.
"Go show the world democracy!
And maybe Christianity..."
Check out our extensive history
Of segregation and slavery,
Of treason and Confederacy.
And never mind that sixty-three
Percent of all the world's countries
Are democratic already.
"Land of liberty!"
So long as you're the same as me.
And if you ever disagree,
You might get strung up from a tree
Like it's the Seventeenth Century,
'Cause it's the land of the free,
Home of hypocrisy,
And finding ways to vilify minorities.
"Education isn't free!"
Health care? Water that's clean?
This ain't a commie country.
Well, I still got my law degree,
And in the prison industry,
Freedom's wholly free,
So we put restrictive laws
On everything but weaponry.
