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mac56

(17,566 posts)
Sat May 3, 2014, 02:07 PM May 2014

This song is fifty years old, and quite prescient.



From Roger Miller's debut album in 1964.

When I was a little boy I used to sit and dream of travelin’
To lots of foreign countries on sight-seein’ tours
The way it’s lookin’ now, I can stop savin’ money
Maybe go free, sponsored by the third world war

Well, can’t you just see me now, chin up, chest out
A-hup two, three, four, all day through?
Everybody seems to be worried about a-somethin’ or other
Who’s gonna worry about Private John Q.?
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