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“The Star Spangled Banner,” our anthem, we learned,
our children’s voices ringing out in school
where we were taught our country’s always right.
Marching on the highroad when we war,
our Statue beckons those in need of help,
our bell of hope ringing through the world.

No other anthem in this wide, wide world,
could teach us what we learned.
How “the land of the free” could be counted on to help.
Brave little Yankee-doodle dandies filling every school,
collecting tin and brass in time of war,
Souza and Old Glory marching, right, left, right.

It always was so clear, the line dissecting wrong and right,
as our politicians and our press defined the world,
the hatred of our enemies force us to make war.
We must teach a lesson one more time to those who haven’t learned,
who sang some other anthem in their school,
until on their knees, they gratefully petition us for help.

Dominos, Monopolies, theories trotted out to help,
see, when it comes to leftist commies, might is right,
and don’t heed propaganda from the Marxist school.
Our foes are preaching domination of the world
and don’t you think it’s time they learned
we’re neither weak nor unwilling to wage war?

The towers fell, and once more our children fight a war,
a spreading war on terror something nobody could help;
repeating ugly history as if nothing had been learned.
As if America feels it has the right
to invade any country in the world,
not the nation I was taught to love in school.

Now foreign families fear to send their children out to school,
education and safety two more casualties of a war
we’ve brought into their world.
We’ve given reason they can’t trust us, something they can’t help,
our bursting bombs and glaring rockets make them right
to hold a grudge their children’s children will have learned

The history taught in school, of an America known to help,
makes war with what I now know to be right
and I fear the world will teach us fear we’ll wish we never learned.



















Dale Arthur

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