Can't Happen Here
They killed the Missouri compromise
In 1854
Then bleeding Kansas plunged
Into fierce guerrilla war
Very few predicted
And fewer still would listen
To crys of circling crows foretell
The coming cataclysm
We're Bobby Lee's infantry
And love that rebel yell
You say that it can't happen here
We're waiting for you in Hell
The devil's in the details
Sent to scout the Union Corps
You say that it can't happen here
That's what we said before
The war
We're fighting for our rights
Fighting to right all wrongs
We were just about to start our lives
When they gave us uniforms
It was brother against brother
Not so long ago
From the time of Cain and Abel
That's how the story goes
We're Bobby Lee's infantry
And love that rebel yell
You say that it can't happen here
We're waiting for you in Hell
The devil's in the details
Sent to scout the Union Corps
You say that it can't happen here
That's what we said before
The war
Ask the ghosts of Sarajevo
Mosul and Kandahar
They thought it couldn't happen there
They'll tell the cause of war
Their leaders were little men
Who bickered and debated
And for their own gain and glory
Fed sectarian hatred
They killed the Missouri compromise
In 1854
Then bleeding Kansas plunged
Into fierce guerrilla war
Put country over politics
Or leaders run the risk
For credit in their epitaphs
For opening the abyss
In 1854
Then bleeding Kansas plunged
Into fierce guerrilla war
Very few predicted
And fewer still would listen
To crys of circling crows foretell
The coming cataclysm
We're Bobby Lee's infantry
And love that rebel yell
You say that it can't happen here
We're waiting for you in Hell
The devil's in the details
Sent to scout the Union Corps
You say that it can't happen here
That's what we said before
The war
We're fighting for our rights
Fighting to right all wrongs
We were just about to start our lives
When they gave us uniforms
It was brother against brother
Not so long ago
From the time of Cain and Abel
That's how the story goes
We're Bobby Lee's infantry
And love that rebel yell
You say that it can't happen here
We're waiting for you in Hell
The devil's in the details
Sent to scout the Union Corps
You say that it can't happen here
That's what we said before
The war
Ask the ghosts of Sarajevo
Mosul and Kandahar
They thought it couldn't happen there
They'll tell the cause of war
Their leaders were little men
Who bickered and debated
And for their own gain and glory
Fed sectarian hatred
They killed the Missouri compromise
In 1854
Then bleeding Kansas plunged
Into fierce guerrilla war
Put country over politics
Or leaders run the risk
For credit in their epitaphs
For opening the abyss
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Stanard
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