With God on Our Side Bob Dylan, Joan Baez

With God on Our Side My name it means nothing My age it means less And the country I come from Is called the Midwest I was brought up there and taught there The law to abide And that the land that I live in Has God on its side Oh, the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalries charged And the Indians fell The cavalries charged And the Indians died Oh, the country was young With God on its side Oh, the SpanishAmerican War had its day And the Civil war too Was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I was taught to memorize With their guns in their hands And God on their side And World War One It came and it went The reason for fighting I never did get But I learned to accept it And accept it with pride For you don t count the dead When God s on your side And the Second World War, boys, It came to an end We forgave the Germans And called them our friends Though they killed six million In the ovens they fried The Germans now too Have God on their side