ET Awful
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:04 AM
Original message |
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore |
|
Edited on Wed Aug-03-05 11:09 AM by ET Awful
While digesting Reader's Digest In the back of a dirty book store, A plastic flag, with gum on the back, Fell out on the floor. Well, I picked it up and I ran outside Slapped on my window shield, And if I could see old Betsy Ross I'd tell her how good I feel.
But your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. They're already overcrowded From your dirty little war. Now Jesus don't like killin' No matter what the reason's for, And your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more.
Well, I went to the bank this morning And the cashier he said to me, "If you join the Christmas club We'll give you ten of them flags for free." Well, I didn't mess around a bit I took him up on what he said. And I stuck them stickers all over my car And one on my wife's forehead.
But your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. They're already overcrowded From your dirty little war. Now Jesus don't like killin' No matter what the reason's for, And your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more.
Well, I got my window shield so filled With flags I couldn't see. So, I ran the car upside a curb And right into a tree. By the time they got a doctor down I was already dead. And I'll never understand why the man Standing in the Pearly Gates said...
But your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. We're already overcrowded From your dirty little war. Now Jesus don't like killin' No matter what the reason's for, And your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more.
- John Prine
|
leftofthedial
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:05 AM
Response to Original message |
1. I've been playing this one out lately |
|
usually the place gets real quiet and then about half the people laugh.
|
ET Awful
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:08 AM
Response to Reply #1 |
3. You just have to be careful where you play it :) |
|
Like I wouldn't recommend playing it in a redneck bar for instance. (a la the club in "The Blues Brothers").
But if you were to play it at say . . . Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, it'd probably go over very well :).
|
leftofthedial
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:15 AM
Response to Reply #3 |
6. I play pretty mixed venues, leaning slightly left sometimes |
|
I've not gotten overtly negative responses
you can tell the repukes by the confused, cognitive dissonance, stupid looks on their faces as they try desperately to digest the truth
I also play "For What It's Worth" regularly.
|
Sequoia
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:08 AM
Response to Original message |
2. I've never heard it, but it's GREAT |
|
We have a few guys running around the office witht those flag pins on their collars. Too funny.
|
hobbit709
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:10 AM
Response to Original message |
|
still just as appropriate.
|
Gato Moteado
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:11 AM
Response to Original message |
|
....would be another good prine song to play.
|
Double T
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-03-05 11:16 AM
Response to Original message |
7. How About An 'I Worship George W. Bush' T-Shirt...... |
|
think that will be adequate to open the pearly gates???
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Wed Apr 24th 2024, 10:54 PM
Response to Original message |