i m just a typical american boy from a typical american town i believe in god and senator dodd 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 recorded by pete seeger on dangerous songs