Help Save The Youth Of America Lyrics

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

When the lights go out in the rest of the world
What do our cousins say
They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun
Till daddy takes the gun away

From the big church to the big river
And out to the shining sea
This is the land of opportunity
And there's a Monkey Trial on TV

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

Don't tell me the old, old story
Tell me the truth this time
Is the man in the mask or the Indian
An enemy or a friend of mine

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

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

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

And the fate of the great United States
Is entwined in the fate of us all
And the incident at Tschernobyl proves
The world we live in is very small

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

Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg

Oct 2003

1. St Swithin's Day
2. Levi Stubbs' Tears
3. Walk Away Renee
4. Greetings To The New Brunette
5. There Is Power In A Union
6. Help Save The Youth Of America
7. The Warmest Room
8. Must I Paint You A Picture
9. Valentine's Day Is Over
10. Sexuality
11. Cindy Of 1000 Lives
12. Moving The Goalposts
13. Tank Park Salute
14. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
15. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Stars Version)
16. Sulk
17. Upfield
18. The Fourteenth Of February
19. Brickbat
20. The Space Race Is Over
21. The Boy Done Good
22. Ingrid Bergman
23. Way Over Yonder In The Morning Key
24. My Flying Saucer
25. All You Fascists Bound To Lose (Blokes Version)
26. NPWA
27. St. Monday
28. Somedays I See The Point
29. Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version)