War Games

Rally round the flag boys
and give me your attention.
Ignore your mother's mournful cries
and follow my advise.

trade in your childish thinker toys

for a dozen half-mast causes

and you and i can take that hill

before the Phoenix rises

Rally round the flag boys

and follow my direction.

don't listen to the ripe old men

who tell you wars aren't won

we have filled up graveyards

with victories by the ton

Rally round the flag boys

and steady your position.

pay no heed to epitaphs

of killed-in-action schemes

glass enclosures weren't designed

to hold the end of dreams

Rally round the flag boys

it's time to go to war.

Grandma Proses

Shirley A. Bender

Copyright © 1985
'War Games' set to music...

Composed by Laurie Stonerock