Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from

Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide

And that 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's 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 we were friends

Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too

Have God on their side.
I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life

If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them

To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we 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.
In a many dark hour

I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss

But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot

Had God on his 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
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.