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Pledge of Allegience Lyrics by Jello Biafra

I Blow Minds for a Living

1991

I don't know if you've been following the Saddam Hussein of the United States, George Bush but, like Adolph Hitler, one of the first things he did to whip people up into a blind frenzy of ugly nationalism is make a real big stink about desecration of the national deity —excuse me— flag in almost identical language to Hitler.
Every day in school in America I had to rise and pledge allegiance to the flag even as the Vietnam war was going on across the street at the University of Colorado. And I was held over all afternoon in third grade to write over and over again:
I will not laugh during flag pledge
I will not laugh during flag pledge
I haven't forgotten either.
I pledge defiance to the flag of the united snakes of captivity
And to the Republic for which it stands
I dip it in kerosene and stick it up the ass of you-know-who
And light it!
One nation under God - or else
One nation under psychopathic Pentagon gangsters
Whose idea of national security
Is concentration camps for people who dare to use the drugs
That the CIA brings in and the government supplies themselves.
One nation under Wall St.
If the cops and the government are all crooks
I might as well be one, too.
One nation of sedated tabloid robots
Who actually believe what they see on TV
Even on MTV
And when asked what they think about it
They reply, "I don't care"
One nation drowning in its own garbage
Indivisible from the fall of Rome
With liberty and justice for all... who can afford it.
Burn, baby, burn!
Burn, baby, burn!
Old glory, the Yankee swastika
Burn, baby, burn.
Burn, baby, burn
Whenever I see you, I see red
Whenever I see you, I see red
If the communist countries can do it, why can't we
Throw the bastards out and try some real democracy?
Run not by rich people, not by military people
Not by sons of senators' sons of senators' sons of senators' sons of senators' sons
Have you noticed how the more they give people their freedom over there
The more they take it away over here
So, now before it's too late to even talk about stuff like this
Be a patriot, a good patriot
The one that cares about their country more than forcing
People to worship the flag
And take the swastika, the Yankee swastika
And let it burn, burn, burn, baby, burn!
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Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

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