Baby's finished high school
He's got no dough for university
So they tell him join the army
Do your time for your country
See if you're born in the ghetto
That helps to seal your destiny
They steal your birth right
From your clenched fist
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
It's not right
It's not right
Sending children into war
It's not right
It's not right
Sending babies into war
They're hearing voices in the night time
They seeing shadows of the dead
And if they make it home
They'd hear the voices in their head
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
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(Baby don't go)
(Baby don't go)
They had to be a decision
That every rich man on the planet
To send his first born into battle
Well that would be different
They'd find a way of talking
Sit across at the table
Children are rising
Children of Ishmael
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go
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(Baby don't go)
(Baby don't go)
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Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Baby don't go