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Artist/Band: Pete Seeger
Lyrics for Song: Draft Dodger Rag
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Pete Seeger



DRAFT DODGER RAG

(Phil Ochs)

I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town

I believe in God and Senator Todd and keeping old Castro down

And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red

But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:

Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen

And I always carry a purse

I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, and my asthma's

getting worse

O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old

invalid aunt

Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school, and I'm

working in a defense plant

I've got a dislocated disc and a racked up back

I'm allergic to flowers and bugs

And when bombshells hit, I get epileptic fits

And I'm addicted to a thousand drugs

I got the weakness woes, I can't touch my toes



I can hardly touch my knees

And if the enemy came close to me

I'd probably start to sneeze

I hate Chou En Lai, and I hope he dies,

but one thing you gotta see

That someone's gotta go over there

but that someone isn't me

So I wish you well, Sarge, give 'em Hell

Yeah kill me a thousand or more

And if you ever get a war without blood and gore

Well I'll be the first to go

Copyright Appleseed Music, Inc.

filename[ DRAFTDOD

recorded by Pete Seeger on Dangerous Songs

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Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Pete Seeger


Pete Seeger
"Other Songs - Pete Seeger"


1. America The Beautiful
2. Battle Of New Orleans
3. Both Sides Now
4. Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)
5. Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies
6. Danville Girl
7. Down By The Riverside [#]
8. Draft Dodger Rag
9. Goodnight, Irene
10. Harry Simms
11. I'll Never Say Goodbye
12. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
13. Joe Hill
14. John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man] [John
15. Last Train To Nuremberg
16. Letter To Eve
17. Lou Marsh
18. Michael Row The Boat Ashore
19. My Dentist Has Tattooed Legs
20. My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
21. My Name Is Liza Kalvelage
22. My Rainbow Race
23. Never Wed An Old Man
24. Oh Susanna [#]
25. Oh, What A Beautiful City
26. Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark]
27. On Top Of Old Smoky
28. Shenandoah
29. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
30. Stealin'
31. The Bourgeois Blues
32. The First Noel
33. The Foggy Dew
34. The Wreck Of The Old 97
35. Those Three Are On My Mind
36. To My Old Brown Earth
37. Walking Down Death Row
38. We Will Love Or We Will Perish
39. When Johnny Comes Marching Home