About This War

What are we gonna do about this war? 2x

It’s the one we’re paying our taxes for

Fighting in a rich man’s war 

Guatemala, El Salvador

I just can’t understand how the mind of a grown man

Can conceive a plan to bring a threat to every land

Then seek to hide away until the day, he’s not the one to die

What are we gonna do about this war? 2x

It’s the one They’re training our children for

They’re gonna be fighting in a rich man’s war

Guatemala, El Salvador

Lead break

What are we gonna do about this war? 2x

It’s the one They’re training our children for

Electronic helicopter war down in Guatemala, El Salvador

Maybe it will fade away, and be in the past some day

Who remembers when we been doing it to the Philippines?

1898 it was the Moros who were the ones to die

What are we gonna do about this war? 2x

I’ve got the feeling we’ve been through this before

Rivers of blood and gore 

Fighting in a rich man’s war 

Guatemala, El Salvador

It’s the same old Uncle Sam from Plymouth Rock to Viet Nam

Jackson State to Lebanon, tear gas to atom bombs

It was all for vanity’s sake, and what he could take 

From the ones who died

What are we gonna do about this war? 4x