"It Will Make the Generals Sad, I know" ...but Bring 'Em Home...Bring 'Em Home!

[KoKo]

VOCAL VERSION:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dASrcgK6ayU


BRING THEM HOME (IF YOU LOVE YOUR UNCLE SAM)
Pete Seeger's 2003 version

If you love this land of the free
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring all troops back from overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

It will make the generals sad, I know
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
They want to tangle with the foe
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

They want to test their weaponry
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Here is their big fallacy
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

Our foe is hunger and ignorance
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
You can't beat that with bombs and guns
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

I may be right, I may be wrong
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
But I got a right to sing this song
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home


Isn't that the wonderful thing about America.
You got a right to be wrong.
Where else in the world can we do it like we can do it here?
And back in 1965 when I first wrote this song it was
"If you love your Uncle Sam
Support our boys in Vietnam
Bring 'em home"
And if you all sing that chorus with me we can raise the ceiling a little higher.
Hooray for the United States of America and the right to speak your mind.

There's one thing I must confess
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
I'm not really a pacifist
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

If an army invaded this land of mine
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
You'd find me out on the firing line
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

Show those generals a fallacy
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
They don't have the right weaponry
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

For defense you need common sense
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
They don't have the right armaments
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

The world needs teachers, books and schools
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
And learning a few universal rules
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

So now we don't want to fight for oil
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Underneath some foreign soil
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

So if you love this land of the free
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring all troops back from overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

The above lyrics refer to the version that Pete Seeger rerecorded in the Springs of 2003, with guests Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, and Steve Earle, to support anti-Iraqi war move. That recording was released that year on Seeds - The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. III. Check out Pete Seeger's 1966 version (more details about the song origin).

http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/lyrics/b/bringthemhome4.php

[KoKo]

1. Well...I'll give this a kick...for a DARK NIGHT...and a little Springseen..