John Prine - - Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore

[jefferson_dem]

Run time: 02:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kTctirEPns   Posted on YouTube: May 24, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 05, 2007 By DU Member: jefferson_dem Views on DU: 496

 
I salute you, Senator Obama! :patriot:


Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
by John Prine

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 ran outside
And slapped it on my windowshield.
And If I could see ol’ Betsy Ross
I’d tell her how good I feel.

But, you flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven anymore.
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like Killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

Well,I went to the Bank this morning
And the cashier said to me
If you join the Christmas Club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free.
I didn’t mess a round a bit
I took him up on what he said
And stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife’s forehead.

But, you flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven anymore.
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like Killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

Well,I got my windshield so filled with flags I couldn’t see
So I ran my 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 anymore,
We’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

[TomInTib]

1. Whoa!! I was playing that song less than ten minutes ago!

All this bidness about Osama not wearing a flag pin or something got me to thinking about it.

Wow.

[jefferson_dem]

2. Did *he* not wear one in the last "cave-production"? I know he had that newly colored beard and all.

:shrug:

The song is rather apropos, eh.