Uncle Sam is looking for a few good kids for cannon fodder and will leave no child behind.
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Story behind the song
Randi Rhodes inspired me. This is the real no child left behind.
Lyrics
JUST SAY NO! OUR KIDS WON'T GO
Don’t let your kids download those war games
Or else the military’ll have ‘em in their sights
Don’t let ‘em sign on the dotted line
Or the DOD’ll have ‘em dead to rights
The only high school draft should be football
The only uniforms in the band
There’s something fishy going on in the high schools, parents
Listen up, you better understand
CHORUS
They wanna leave no child behind
As they march your kids off to war
They hope you won’t mind
In fact they think that’s what you gave birth to ‘em for
They wanna make sure every mother’s son and daughter
Has a chance to become W’s cannon fodder
You don’t have to be nice to take Nancy Reagan’s advice
Just say, “NO! Our kids won’t go.”
Just to get a decent education
Our children shouldn’t have to sell their souls
This time of their live should be the time of their life
In dorm rooms not fox holes
But their enlistment’s down, they’re really hurtin’
And they say gays and lesbians recruit
No boot camps, yes posters, no medals, we get toasters
And we sure as hell don’t teach young queers to shoot
CHORUS
Just because your son has now turned 18
Doesn’t mean that he’s prepared to fight and die
Maybe if someone attacks his mother or his country
But certainly not for W’s slimy lie
We’ve got to stop the madness for all children and their kids
But if we don’t come together and insist
Well, Canada has health care and they welcome us before
And it’s as good a place as any to resist
CHORUS
Tell ‘em you’re not willing for your kids to do their killing
Just say, “NO! Our kids won’t go.”
If they think it’s so thrilling let their own kids to their killing
Just say, “NO! Our kids won’t go.”