We cut through the backwoods of the Harrison farm   Jumped over the rock fence under Mr. Jenkins' barn   Made a beeline down choctaw bend to the pawnee bridge and ran into town   Raced that train to the tracks without slowing down   We went to see the mason man at old man James' store   And those rocking chairs weren't rocking   The answers are gone   And there's a sign that said "Closed" on the door   Turned around and ran back to the tracks    To who the kids had come to call the Reverend railroad Miller Jack   And he'd give you sermons and songs   All his rights and what's wrongs   He would sling his guitar with a flag across his lap and he'd say   "Settle down now   You kids are gonna be okay   Settle down now   The boys and girls are fighting for you today   Settle down now   I'm gonna tell you what you wanna believe"   Well he said    "You dedicate your soul for god, country and Rock 'n Roll   And get America high   And get America high"   We filed them questions one by one    And he knocked 'em down to the ground    While we stood there in line   He said    "I fought with your daddy, child, off the coast of hell in the summer of 1969"   Well I was born in the Vietnam war    And he died later that same year   But this country is my rock and my soul rolls from my faith in god   And that's what keeps me here   "Settle down now   You kids are gonna be okay   Settle down now   The boys and girls are fighting for you today   Settle down now, settle down"   Well he said    "You dedicate your soul for god, country and Rock 'n' Roll   And get America high   And get America high   And get America high"