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Help save the Youth of America - Billy Bragg
 
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Union Maid:
454. 2006-05-27 - Live: 2006-05-23
501. 2006-09-28 - Live: 2006-09-28

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Help save the youth of America
Help save them from themselves
Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys
And the Californian girls

When the lights go out in the rest of the World
What do our cousins say
They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun
Till Daddy takes the gun away

From the Big Church to the Big River
And out to the Shining Sea
This is the Land of Opportunity
And there's a Monkey Trial on TV

A nation with their freezers full
Are dancing in their seats
While outside another nation
Is sleeping in the streets

Don't tell me the old, old story
Tell me the truth this time
Is the Man in the Mask or the Indian
An enemy or a friend of mine

Help save the youth of America
Help save the youth of the world
Help save the boys in uniform
Their mothers and their faithful girls

Listen to the voice of the soldier
Down in the killing zone
Talking about the cost of living
And the price of bringing him home

They're already shipping the body bags
Down by the Rio Grande
But you can fight for democracy at home
And not in some foreign land

And the fate of the great United States
Is entwined in the fate of us all
And the incident at Tschernobyl proves
The world we live in is very small

And the cities of Europe have burned before
And they may yet burn again
And if they do I hope you understand
That Washington will burn with them
Omaha will burn with them
Los Alamos will burn with them



by unknown @ Ultimate Guitar
G(5)                   C(5)  G(5)
Help save the youth of America

                        D(5)
Help save them from themselves

G(5)                   C(5)   G(5)
Help save the sunshine surfer boy

        D(5)       G(5)
and the California girls (repeat for all the other verses)


i can't remember all the words, but some go like this:

A nation with their freezers full
is dancing in their seats
while outside another nation
is sleeping in the streets

last verse:
G                         C        G
The cities of Europe have burned before

                     D
and they may burn again

G                     C      G
and this time if they do you bet

                     D         G
that washington will burn with them

           D         G
omaha will burn with them

                D         G     GGCCGCG
los alamos will burn with them

 

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