Well, he was one of the millions   Who signed up to defend us long ago in 1941   When they sucker punched us in Pearl Harbor   He fought under Macarthur seventeen with an army Thompson gun      Well, he stormed a lot of beaches slept in jungles with the leaches   He saw things young man should never see   And when they shot him in the shoulder   He got back up and he marched over   Left a lot of brothers dead in kawagalie      If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man   There wouldn't be a breath of freedom in this land   And I see people on my TV taking shots at uncle Sam   I hope they always remember why they can      'Cause we'd all be speakin' German   Livin' under the flag of Japan   If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man   If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man      Well, I'm the grandson of a soldier   And I'd fight the whole world over   If duty called and freedom's on the line   But thanks to the greatest generation   And the ones still fighting for our nation   I've never had to kill for my way of life      If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man   There wouldn't be a breath of freedom in this land   And I see people on my TV taking shots at uncle Sam   I hope they always remember why they can      'Cause we'd all be speakin' German   Livin' under flag of Japan   If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man      If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man   There wouldn't be a breath of freedom in this land   And I see people on my TV taking shots at uncle Sam   I hope they always remember why they can      'Cause we'd all be speakin' German   Livin' under flag of Japan   If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man   If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man