Judy Collins With God on Our Side song lyrics

Oh, my name, it means nothin', my age it means less

The country I come from is called the Midwest

I was taught and brought up there, the laws to abide

And the land that I live in has God on its side

Oh, the history books tell it, they tell it so well

The cavalries charged, the Indians fell

The cavalries charged, the Indians died

Oh, the country was young with God on its side

Oh, the Spanish-American war had its day

And the civil war too was soon laid away

And the names of the heroes I was made to memorize

With guns in their hands and God on their side

Oh, the first world war, boys it closed out its fate

The reason for fighting I never got straight

But I learned to accept it, accept it with pride

For you don't count the dead when God's on your side

When the second world war came to an end

We forgave the Germans and then we were friends

Though they murdered six million, in the ovens they fried

The Germans now too have God on their side

But now we've got weapons of the chemical dust

If fire them we're forced to, then fire them we must

One push of the button and a shot the world wide

And you never ask questions when God's on your side

So now as I'm leavin', I'm weary as hell

The confusion I'm feelin', ain't no tongue can tell

The words fill my head and fall to the floor

Oh, if God's on our side, He'll stop the next war