by Barry Williams

Created on: May 16, 2010

Fight for country fight a war

No way I know what is in store

Get a job  and find some work

Not for me I rather shirk

I have children by women unwed

Marry them no  I'll stay single instead

Pay them child support  surely you joke

I'm on welfare it would leave me broke

My parents suspect that I'm on drugs

Police question them and are met with shrugs

They haven't seen me for  many a  year

And they couldn't care less is what I hear

So if someone wants to to go to war

Let him

And if someone wants to work until seventy four

Let him

So if someone wants to marry for the rest of their life

Let him

And battle a mortgage have children  live in constant strife

Let him

So if someone avoids hard  drugs but dies from smoking and beer

Let him

And if  I'm  sent to prison and  someone  wants to cheer

Let him

Now let him look at me and ponder my worth

For we were  once both equal at birth

Let him live his life and mine  as we see fit

For we  both become equal again when our lives are quit

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