Prelude in H Sharp

War-protest folksong from 1980. So much has changed since then!

With a marching beat

   1.
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Whatcha gonna do about it,

Whatcha gonna do,

When the army of America 
      D
   is comin' after you?

D
Whatcha gonna do about it,

Whatcha gonna say,

When people from the draft board
          E
   try to send you far away?
   2.
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Whatcha gonna think about it,

How you gonna feel,

When they argue that your draft
              D
   resistance simply isn't real?

D
Whatcha gonna do about it,

Where you gonna go,

If Canada won't take you
           E
   and the prisons overflow?
   3.
E
Wouldja fight in Israel

Or go defend Iran,

Or some supposed vital interest
      D
   in Afghanistan?

D
Deadly germs and killer gas

And anti-matter ray,

Giant solar microwaves
       E
   and mutant DNA...
   4.
E
We can fire lazer beams

And drop a neutron bomb,

All the weapons that we didn't
   D
   have for Viet Nam.

     D
Each war they say is diff'rent

But the people die the same.

Next time they give a war
   they'll say that
     C    B    E
     everybody came!
Nagasaki mushroom cloud