Oh my name it is nothin'   My age it means less   The country I come from   Is called the Midwest   I's taught and brought up there   The laws to abide   And that land that I live in   Has God on its side.      Oh the history books tell it   They tell it so well   The cavalries charged   The Indians fell   The cavalries charged   The Indians died   Oh the country was young   With God on its side.      Oh the Spanish-American   War had its day   And the Civil War too   Was soon laid away   And the names of the heroes   I's made to memorize   With guns in their hands   And God on their side.      Oh the First World War, boys   It came and it went.   The reason for fighting   I never got straight   But I learned to accept it   Accept it with pride   For you don't count the dead   When God's on your side.      When the Second World War   Came to an end   We forgave the Germans   And we were friends   Though they murdered six million   In the ovens they fried   The Germans now too   Have God on their side.      I've learned to hate Russians   All through my whole life   If another war starts   It's them we must fight   To hate them and fear them   To run and to hide   And accept it all bravely   With God on my side.      But now we got weapons   Of the chemical dust    If fire them we're forced to   Then fire them we must   One push of the button   And a shot the world wide   And you never ask questions   When God's on your side.      In a many dark hour   I've been thinkin' about this   That Jesus Christ   Was betrayed by a kiss   But I can't think for you   You'll have to decide   Whether Judas Iscariot   Had God on his side.      So now as I'm leavin'   I'm weary as hell   The confusion I'm feelin'   Ain't no tongue can tell   The words fill my head   And fall to the floor   If God's on our side   He'll stop the next war.