Help save the youth of America   Help save them from themselves   Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys   And the Californian girls      When the lights go out in the rest of the World   What do our cousins say   They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun   Till Daddy takes the gun away      From the Big Church to the Big River   And out to the Shining Sea   This is the Land of Opportunity   And there's a Monkey Trial on TV      A nation with their freezers full   Are dancing in their seats   While outside another nation   Is sleeping in the streets      Don't tell me the old, old story   Tell me the truth this time   Is the Man in the Mask or the Indian   An enemy or a friend of mine      Help save the youth of America   Help save the youth of the world   Help save the boys in uniform   Their mothers and their faithful girls      Listen to the voice of the soldier   Down in the killing zone   Talking about the cost of living   And the price of bringing him home      They're already shipping the body bags   Down by the Rio Grande   But you can fight for democracy at home   And not in some foreign land      And the fate of the great United States   Is entwined in the fate of us all   And the incident at Chernobyl proves   The world we live in is very small      And the cities of Europe have burned before   And they may yet burn again   And if they do I hope you understand   That Washington will burn with them   Omaha will burn with them   Los Alamos will burn with them