Well lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns   A new day’s a comin’ first sight of the sun    It’ll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love    While sweet baby Jesus rides the wing of a dove      Now our color filled country is a giant strip mall    It’s a joke in the men’s room misspelled on the stall   But when it’s all over, ain’t no colors anyway    Like an old silent movie, only black, white and gray      Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns    A new day’s a comin’ first sight of the sun   It’ll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love    While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove      Well the bad guys are gone, boys, we run most of them down   when we flattened the hillsides and we pummeled the ground   And speaking on bombs, boys, you'd better believe   That it’s better to give boys, than it is to receive      Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns   A new day’s a comin’ first sight of the sun   It’ll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love   While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove      Now Old Glory’s still flyin’, just like before   And your kids ain’t believin’ in nothin’ no more   And you can’t really blame ‘em, same shit we were fed   From the pages of schoolbooks to the Bibles we read      Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns   A new day’s a comin’ first sight of the sun   And it’ll shine like a beacon On whoever shall love   While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove