Draft Dodger's Rag
Key: F

Draft Dodger Rag
Chords and Lyrics by Phil Ochs
Copyright 1964

Chords and Lyrics Provided by Judy Muldawer
For Educational Purposes Only
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File Created 08-07-2022

Verse 1:

F                                      G7
I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town.
     C7                                   C           C7     F
I be-lieve in God and Senator Dodd and in keeping old Castro down.
    F                                     G7
And when it came my time to serve, I knew better dead than red.
    C7               C                      C7             F
But when I got to my ol' draft board, buddy this is what I said:
  
Chorus:
        
F
"Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen,
      G7
And I always carry a purse.
      C7
I got eyes like a bat, and my feet are flat,
       C}asthma's [C7F
And my getting worse.

    F
Oh, think of my career, my sweetheart dear
   G7
My poor old invalid aunt.
           C7
Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm going to school,
        C            C7      F
And I'm working in a defense plant.
         
        F
I got a dislocated disc, and a racked up back,
       G7
I'm al-lergic to flowers and bugs,
             C7
And when the bombshell hits I get epileptic fits
           C           C7       F
And I'm ad-dicted to a thousand drugs.
      
          F
I got the weakness woes, I can't touch my toes,
      G7
I can hardly reach my knees.
           C7
And if the enemy came close to me,
    C        C7       F
I'd probably start to sneeze."

Chorus Repeat:

Verse 2:

       F
I hate Chou En Lai and I hope he dies
    G7
But one thing you gotta see,
     C7                 C
That someone's gotta go over there,
         C7            F
And that someone isn't me.

      F
So, I wish you well, Sarge, Give 'em hell,
      G7
Yeah, kill me a thousand or so,
           C7                     C
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore,
          C7              F
Well I'll be the first to go.

Chorus Repeat:

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