I Don't Want To Be A Soldier
Cowboy Junkies

[John Lennon cover]

Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die
Well i don't wanna be a sailor mamma, i don't wanna fly
Well i don't wanna be a failure mamma, i don't wanna cry
Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no

Well i don't wanna be a rich man mamma, i don't wanna cry
Well i don't wanna be a poor man mamma, i don't wanna fly
Well i don't wanna be a lawyer mamma, i don't wanna lie
Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no

Well i don't wanna be a beggar mamma, i don't wanna die
Well i don't wanna be a theif now mamma, i don't wanna fly
Well i don't wanna be a churchman mamma, i don't wanna cry
Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Hit it!

Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die
Well i don't wanna be a sailor mamma, i don't wanna fly
Well i don't wanna be a failure mamma, i don't wanna cry
Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no

I'm tilting on the break of shit
Decisions making in my life
Makes me loose it i ain't taking it this way i ain't making it
There n mistakes but if i'm wrong i will pay for it
Like them bills i hate to pay
Today i stay brave to win every day i'm a soldier
I don't wanna die. I ain't know killer either
So why does mama cry?
She needs to feed her child
But she's a child in her father's eyes
Ya'll better recognize
The power parents recking with
Does it make sense to make way for censorship?
It's brains we messing with
Across the planes we got kids n chains and whips
Who live their lives censor less but we couldn't give a shit.
I don't wanna lie
Cheaters will cheat
Some will rather reach jesus
Before meeting defeat
I think it's easy to see i you be seeing these streets
Sometimes my eyes
Can't believe what they see,
On tv, young like me sent over seas
Sent over greed i believe
Is this what we need?
Yo these guys like me.
To add fire to the fuel
Life twisted my views
Just from flicking the news
I gives me the early 21st century blues
But we making it threw
Make what you make it
You can't redo what you do
I'm the living proof making it threw the 21st century blues
Peace.


  Purchase "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" Video   Play Spotify "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" Song   View Wikipedia "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Cowboy Junkies Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Cowboy Junkies

  Dragging Hooks, River Song Trilogy, Pt. 3   From Hunting Ground to City Street   'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel (Live)   "Murder, Tonight, In the Trailer Park"   1000 Year Prayer [DVD]   200 More miles   200 More Miles [Multimedia Track]   A common disaster   A Few Bags Of Grain   A Few SImple Words   A Good Heart   A Horse in the Country   A Horse in the Country [DVD]   A Walk In The Park   Angel mine   Angels in the Wilderness   Anniversary song   Arlington   At the End of the Rainbow   Baby please don't go   Bad Boy   Bad Boy (Live)   Bea's song   Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy, Part II)   Beneath The Gate   Black Eyed Man   Blue Eyed Savior   Blue Eyed Saviour   Blue Guitar   Blue Moon Revisited   Blue Moon Revisited (A Song For Elvis)   Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)   Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) [DVD]   Blue Moon Revisted (Song for Elvis) [Multimedia Tr...   Blues Eyed Saviour   Brand New World   Bread And Wine   Brothers Under The Bridge   Bullet For You   Captain kidd   Cicadas   Close My Eyes   Cold tea blues   Come calling   Come Calling (Her Song)   Come Calling (His Song)   Common Disaster   Cowboy Junkies Lament   Crescent Moon   Crossroads   Cutting Board Blues   Dallas Youth Auxiliary   Damaged From the Start   Dark Hole Again   Darkling Days   December Skies   Decoration day   Demons   Disintegrating   Dragging Hooks (River Song Trilogy, Pt. 3)   Dragging Hooks (River Song Trilogy: Part III)   Dragging Hooks (River Song Trilogy), Pt. 3   Dreaming My Dreams With You   Dreaming My Dreams with You [Multimedia Track]   Encore: Hollow As A Bone (Revisited)   Epilogue: White Man I Decline   Escape Is So Simple   First Recollection   Five Room Love Story   Flirted with You All My Life   Floorboard blues   Floorboard Blues (Live)   Follower 2   Forgive me   Forgive Me (Live)   From Hunting Ground To City   Good Friday   Good Friday [DVD]   Handouts In The Rain   He Will Call You Baby   He Will Call You Baby [DVD]   Highway Kind   Hold on to me   Hollow As A Bone   Hollow as a Bone (Revisited)   Hollow As a Bone [DVD]   Hot Burrito #1 ( I'm Your Toy )   Hot Burrito No. 1   Hunted   Hunted (Live)   I Believe I'll Dust My Broom   I Did It All For You   I don't get it   I Let Him In   I Saw Your Shoes   I'll never get out of these blues alive   I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry   I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Live)   I'm So Open   Idle Tales   If You Gotta Go, Go Now   If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man   Isn't It A Pity   It Doesn't Really Matter Anyway   Just want to see   Ladle   Lay it down   Leaving Normal   License To Kill   Little Dark Heart   Lonely sinking feeling   Lost My Driving Wheel   Love's Still There   Mariner's song   Me and the devil   Miles From Our Home   Mining For Gold   Misguided Angel   Misguided Angel (Live)   Misguided Angel [DVD]   Misguided Angel [Live]   Mountain   Murder, Tonight, in the Trailer Park   Murrder, Tonight in the Trailer Park   Musder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park   Musical key   My Fall   My Little Basquiat   My Only Guarantee   My Wild Child   New Dawn Coming   No Birds Today   No Long Journey Home   No More   Notes Falling Slow   Notes Falling Slow [DVD]   Now I know   Once I Was   One   One Soul Now   Ooh Las Vegas   Oregon Hill   Oregon Hill (Live)   Pale sun   Pale Sun (Live)   Pale Sun [DVD]   Parkland   Post   Postcard blues   Postcard Blues [Multimedia Track]   Powderfinger   Prologue: Origami Peace Corps Mischief Makers   Reliquary   Renmin Park   Ring on the sill   River Waltz   Rock and Bird   Sad To See The Season Go   Secret Spy Decoder Ring   See You Around   Seven Years   Shining moon   Simon Keeper   Sir Francis Bacon At The Net   Slipstream   Small Swift Birds   Someday Soon   Someone Out There   Something more besides you   Southern Rain   Speaking confidentially   Spiral Down   Staring Man   Stars Of Our Stars   State Trooper   Still Lost   Strange Language   Stranger Here   Summer Of Our Discontent   Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning   Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning (Live)   Supernatural   Sweet Jane   Take Heart (Elbow Room)   Take me   The Confession of Georgie E   The Good And The Bad   The Last Spike   The post   The Slide   The Stars of Our Stars   The Summer of Discontent   The Water Is Wide   Thirty summers   This Street, That Man, This Life   This World Dreams Of   Those Final Feet   Thousand Year Prayer   Tired eyes   To Live Is to Fly   To Love is To Bury   Towne's Blues   Townes Blues   Townes' Blues   Two Soldiers   Unanswered Letter   Upon Still Waters   Walkin' After Midnight   Walking after midnight   Walking After Midnight (Live)   Walking After Midnight [Multimedia Track]   We Are the Selfish Ones   West of Rome   Whalers / Mariner's Song   When the Bottom Fell Out   Where are you tonight ?   Where Are You Tonight?   Where Are You Tonight? (Live)   White sail   Why This One   Winter's Song   Witches   Working on a Building   Wrong Piano   You Will Be Loved Again   You're Missing

Related Songs

  I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier, Mama, I Don't Wanna Di...  Cupid - Spinnerette  I Dont Want To Be - Gavin DeGraw  All I Wanted 2 Be Was A Soldier - C-Murder  Where We Stand - The Dirty Guv'nahs  I Don't Want To Be A Soldier - John Lennon  I Don't Want To Be A Soldier - Mad Season  I Dont Want To Be Lonely - Matthew Najar  SOLDIER FT TI & LIL WAYNE - Destiny  Mr. Soldier - Brandon Rhyder  Warrior - Kid Rock  dont want to be here...  Soldier - The Adicts  I'm Sorry - Mike Jones  Go To War - Papoose  Fell In Love - Flipsyde  I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die...  I Don\u00c3\u00adt Want To Be A Soldier...  I Do Not Want to Be Soldier - John Lennon  I Dont Want To Know - Goo Goo Dolls  Another Soldier - Feeling  You should be with me - J. Holiday  Underground Army - Anastacia  I Don't Want To Be A Soldier - John Lennon  A Veteran's Song - Nazareth  Anything I Would Do - Megan Rochell  Just Dont Want To Be Lonely - The Main Ingredient  Traveling Soldier - Dixie Chicks  Soldier In The Army - Steel Train  I Want My Sildier To Come Home - Kalee Hric  Left Right - Chemical Brothers  The Happy Note - Through The Walls  Come & Get Something - Master P  Soldier - Jacquees  Born To Be A Soldier - Mystikal  Dont You Want To Be In A Cult...  Pet Sematary - Backyard Babies  Soldier Story - Kane & Abel  Ballad of a Dead Soulja - Amuru Shakur  Ballad of a Dead Soulja - 2Pac  Thalia - I Want You  Happy (Without Me) - Resident Hero  Soldier Story - Kane & Able  Flesh and Blood - People In Planes  Holdin' On - Sly And The Family Stone  Holdin' On - Sly & The Family Stone  My Toy Soldier - 50 CENT  Soldier - Samantha Jade  My Toy Soldier [Explicit] - 50 CENT  Soldier - Angus & Julia Stone  Intro (Trapped In Crime) - C Murder  alpha mansion - The Dollyrots  I Want To Be - Cutting Jade  I Want To Be - We Should Whisper!  Ballad Of Jesse James - Bruce Springsteen  The Ballad of Jesse James - Bruce Springsteen  Dont Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith  Mother & Father - Broods  Don't Be Cruel - Bill Black's Combo  Don't Be Cruel - Billy Swan  All These Things That I've Done - The Killers  Toy Soldier - Britney Spears  I Really Dont Want To Knowep - Elvis Presley  I Dont Want To Hurt You - Latif  Let's Take Our Time - Ryan Cabrera  exit stagefright - The Black Halos  Game Of War (Demo) - Warrant  I Just Want It To Be Over - Keyshia Cole  Broken Hearted Girl - Beyonce  Santa Gimmie - J Randall  Dont Tell Me You Want To, When I Dont Want To Anym...  You And I - Sandhy Sondoro  Get Yo Mind Right"(feat. C-Murder - MASTER P  Ay Ay Ay - Jacob Taio Cruz  Sword Of Glory - Motorhead  Does What She Does - Lil' Wayne  Hourglass - Diecast  No-broken Hearted Girl - Beyonce Knowles  My Toy Soldier [DVD] - 50 Cent  You Don't Know - 10 After  All These Things That I've Done - Killers  As Long As You Love Me - Jason Chen  Toy Soldiers - Charlotte Sometimes  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor - Yardbirds  Soldier Of Fortune - Joe Perry  Tin Soldier - Julia Ecklar  Game Over - Hed PE  Game Over - (Hed) Pe  I Don\u2019t Want It - Akon  What You Want To Be - Archie Star  Leave Dat Boy Alone - D-12  Wasted Life - Face to Face  I Want to Be a Gladiator - Nancy Vandal  I Want To Be A Christian - The Proclaimers  I Want To Be A Christian - Proclaimers  I Want To Be A Writer - Idlewild  I Want To Be A Machine - Ultravox  I Want to Be a Hulkamaniac...  I Want To Be A Popstar - Jamie Cullum  I Want To Be A Bear - Descendents  I Want To Be A Hulkamaniac - Wrestling Lyrics  I Want to Be a Hero - Pokemon  I Want to Be a Sideman - Connie Evingson  I Want To Be A Hulkamaniac - Wrestling  A Love I Can Feel - UB40  Buffalo Soldier - Gilberto Gil  I Dont Know - I Dont Know  Dont Know - I dont know  I Dint Know - I dont know  I Don't Want It - Akon  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor - The Yardbirds  Ballad Of A Dead Soulja - Tupac  For Those About To Die - Robbie Williams  Do It My Self - Young Buck  Slave - Silverchair  My Toy Soldier (Featuring Tony Yayo) - 50 CENT  My Toy Soldiers - 50 Cent  War Rugs - Indigo Girls  Soldier - Boris  Let Him Go - Bobby Valentino  Soldier - Rich Gang  Soldiers - Master P  All I Really Want - Matt Brouwer  Try To Be Me - Tribal Ink  fuck antis - Ytcracker  Pac Reincarnated (Freestyle) - Kutt Calhoun  My Baby Hates Me - The Stitches  What's Poppin My G - Maino  Second Best - Home Grown  Manic Depressive - ICP (Insane Clown Posse)  Wasted Life [Unplugged Version]...  Wasted Life [Unplugged Version][*]...  Wasted Life [Acoustic] - Stiff Little Fingers  Nothing - Cancerslug  It Make You Wanna Go Home - Natalie Grant  Slaved - Autovein  Knock Knock - Monica  Don't You - Forester Sisters  It Make You Want To Dance - Jerry Jeff Walker  Don't Say Goodbye - Eddie Peregrina  I Dont Want To Be With Nobody But You...  I Dont Wanna Be - LMFAO  Tremendous Damage - Big Boi  Soldier - Angus and Julia Stone  Soldier Of Love - The Beatles  Soldior Of Misfortune - Paul Westerberg  One Day - Electronic  Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms) [#]...  Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms) - The Beatles  Be a Soldier [Instrumental] - Johnny Mo  Don't Let It Fall - Dan Ferrari  Don't Let It Fall - Dan Ferarri  The Natural World - Cymbals  Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)...  She's Got Time - Newton Faulkner  She's Got The Time - Newton Faulkner  Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight...  Neva End (Remix) - Future  Without My Hands - Quietdrive  Stay - Candy Hill  Don't Go Tellin' On Me - Ladyboi  Ballad Of A Dead Soulja - Tupac Shakur  Ballad Of A Dead Soulja - 2 Pac  Sweet Thing - Alison Moyet  Old Soul - Thea Gilmore  I Know - Dawn Richard  I Don’t Want Her - Eric Bellinger  Medicine Man - Hush Sound  Holiday - Nazareth  Vintage Queen [#][*] - Goldfinger  Another Sunny Day 12/25 - John Mellencamp  Crazy Old Soldier - Willie Nelson  Take That Off - Tyree  Shadow - Brittnee Belt  Us Soldier Boy - Lil' Wyte  Soldier Of Misfortune - Paul Westerberg  You Dont Own Me - Blow Monkeys  I Want Ya To Feel It! - Wesley Riddle  Superman - Mitch Allan  Don't Kill the Magic - MAGIC!  I Won't Let You Down - Zucchero  She Got Time - Newton Faulkner  I Don't Want to Know - D'Eon  Running' Out Of Time - Lil Cuete  Tempomanic - Bipolar Empire  Selfish - Fantasia Barrino  Betting - Click-B  Run To The Night - Alan Guno  Soldier Of Love - Marshall Crenshaw  Another Girl - Lil' Bow Wow  Another Girl - Omarion  Another Girl - Bow Wow and Omarion  Nobodys Fool - Alexis Blue  Willst du mit mir gehn (English)...  shadows - Sinking Ships  To Be Truly You - Alexthomasdavis  Dont Want None - Chief Keef  Doin What I Want To - Soulja Boy  Bhg - Beyonce  With Me Part 2 featuring Master P...