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...
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 Billy Jack,
And he'd give you sermons and songs
All his rights and what's wrongs
on a string-less 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're gonna believe,"
he said,
"You dedicate your soul for God, country and rock 'n roll.
And get America high."
We fired them questions one by one
And he knocked 'em down to the ground
as 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 I died later that same year,
But this country is my rock
and my soul rolls
and my faith in God-
that's what keeps me here.
Oh, 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..."
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...
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 Billy Jack,
And he'd give you sermons and songs
All his rights and what's wrongs
on a string-less 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're gonna believe,"
he said,
"You dedicate your soul for God, country and rock 'n roll.
And get America high."
We fired them questions one by one
And he knocked 'em down to the ground
as 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 I died later that same year,
But this country is my rock
and my soul rolls
and my faith in God-
that's what keeps me here.
Oh, 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..."