NOBODY’S LEARNIN’ NUTHIN’
H. W. Bryce
Ho hum, another killin’, another war,
Seen it all before. We mourn, we pray,
We say and we say, but prejudices will stay
And nobody’s learnin’ nuthin’.
Might’s well bury the future
’Cause it looks too much like the past.
Hunker down, don’t interfere
Your fellow citizen has a gun
No more fun. Crazy fools, they
Tried all that before,
nuthin’ new under the sun
Nobody’s learnin’ nuthin’.
By way of progress, nuthin’s new
Last twenty years and still the
Same result for the last 400 times
It’s time to draw the line.
Where have all our sons and daughters gone?
They’ve gone to fight a skirmish. Call it war.
The politicians never learned,
They called the army in.
Nobody’s learnin’ nuthin’
All the effort gone for nuthin’
And still they say, “I’m nobody’s
Fool.” Coulda fooled poor old me.
Coulda fooled. Coulda fooled,
Coulda fooled poor old me.
I’m too old to go to war…
Leave it to the young uns,
They’re the one what can learn.
Yeah, let’s all pass the buck,
Let the young uns save the world
’Cause nobody here’s leanrnin’ nuthin’.
