[Chorus]
G C G
Help save the youth of America
D
Help save them from themselves
G C G
Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys
D G
And the Californian girls
[Verse 1]
G C G
When the lights go out in the rest of the World
D
What do our cousins say
G C G
They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun
D G
Till Daddy takes the gun away
[Verse 2]
C G
From the Big Church to the Big River
D
And out to the Shining Sea
G C G
This is the Land of Opportunity
D G
And there's a Monkey Trial on TV
[Verse 3]
C G
A nation with their freezers full
D
Are dancing in their seats
G C G
While outside another nation
D G
Is sleeping in the streets
[Verse 4]
G C G
Don't tell me the old, old story
D
Tell me the truth this time
G C G
Is the Man in the Mask or the Indian
D G
An enemy or a friend of mine
[Chorus]
G C G
Help save the youth of America
D
Help save the youth of the world
G C G
Help save the boys in uniform
D G
Their mothers and their faithful girls
[Verse 5]
G C G
Listen to the voice of the soldier
D
Down in the killing zone
G C G
Talking about the cost of living
D G
And the price of bringing him home
[Verse 6]
C G
They're already shipping the body bags
D
Down by the Rio Grande
G C G
But you can fight for democracy at home
D G
And not in some foreign land
[Verse 7]
C G
And the fate of the great United States
D
Is entwined in the fate of us all
G C G
And the incident at Chernobyl proves
D G
The world we live in is very small
[Verse 8]
C G
And the cities of Europe have burned before
D
And they may yet burn again
G C G
And if they do I hope you understand
D G
That Washington will burn with them
D G
Omaha will burn with them
C G D G
Los Alamos will burn with them
