You'll Be a Man letra

They'll make a man of you, my son.
You'll wear the green beret
And answer ev'ry question with a gun.
You'll wear a uniform, a signet on your sleeve.
You'll have a power that you never would believe.
And any problem that you meet,
You'll put a bullet through its head
Till ev'rything that moves is dead.

When your time's up and you've returned,
They'll take your gun away
But not the tricks you've learned.
You'll wear a uniform, the neat civilian brown,
Your hair the proper cut, the proper part of town,
And any problem that you meet,
You'll stamp it bloody with your feet,
Or roll it in barbed wire and get it off the street.

And any idea that you cannot comprehend,
You'll put the handcuffs on and that will be the end,
And anything that grows you'll cover with cement.
They'll make a man of you, my son.

Malvina Reynolds - Letras

• A Short History of Warfare
• A Soft Answer
• A Trundle, A Bundle
• A White and Orange Aeroplane
• Alcatraz (Pelican Island)
• All Over Everything
• Alone
• Andorra
• Antique Collector
• Are You Walking There for Me?
• Artichokes
• Babies
• Back Alley Surgery
• Back to the Dream
• Backyard Blues
• Ballad of Ella Mae
• Beetle Bottle Bush
• Billy Boy
• Billy Bump Bump
• Birthday Hallelu
• Bitter Rain
• Black Hawk Blues
• Black Horse
• Blood on the Grapes
• Blues Street
• Boraxo
• Born in the Town
• Boys Will Be Boys
• Bring Flowers
• Bury Me in My Overalls
• Busting at the Seams
• Buying the Package
• Call on Me
• Can't Wait to Go
• Caroline Cotton Mill Song
• Change It
• Check-Up
• Christ Died
• Clean Water
• Come Clean Blues
• Come Out
• Computers
• Count Ten
• D. D. T. on My Brain
• Daddy's in the Jail
• Dancing Girl
• Dead Hand at the Tiller
• Dialectic
• Did You Know?
• Do As the Doukhobors Do
• Do Something Wrong
• Don't Believe the Night Time
• Don't Bother Me
• Don't Drop the Box
• Don't Go Away
• Don't I Let You Live Here?
• Don't Let Him In
• Don't Push Me
• Don't Sell Texas Short
• Don't Shoot the Captain
• Don't Smoke, Darling
• Don't Talk to Me of Love
• Down to Hanson's
• Drive on the Cart
• Early in the Morning
• Earth Child
• Eight Candles
• El Cortito
• Everybody Says
• Everybody Smiles at Me
• Everybody Talks About Mine Mill
• Everything Soup
• Fantastic Man
• Field Workers Song
• Fortunatus' Wallet
• Free Enterprise
• From Way Up Here
• Funny Bug Basin
• Galaxy
• God Bless the Grass
• Goodbye to the Band
• Green Shadows
• Griddle Cakes
• Ground Swell
• Guerrillas in Guatemala
• Gupery Joe and Mike
• Heavy on Me
• Hello Ladybug
• Henry Ford's Engine
• Here's To a World That's All Right
• Hip Hop Candytop
• Housewife's Grief
• Huelga Huelga (Do Not Cross the Line)
• I Believe
• I Don't Care About You
• I Don't Have Anything
• I Don't Mind Failing
• I Don't Think So
• I Don't Understand
• I Know When I've Done Wrong
• I Live in a City
• I Lived Through This Day
• I See You
• I Went A-Gathering
• I Wish You Were Here
• I'm Apathetic
• I'm Doing Fine
• I'm Sorry It's Done
• I'm Too Dumb
• I've Got a Song
• If Peace Time Came
• If Two Have Four
• If You Love Me
• If You Want a Friend
• If You Were Little
• In Bethlehem
• Instant Sentence, or, Talking Law and Order Blues
• It Isn't Nice
• It Turned Out to Be a Song
• It's Enough to Be Young
• It's My Turn
• It's Raining!
• It's Up to You
• Jail House Buddy
• Jailhouse Door
• January Sale
• Jeannie
• Jennie Fell Down
• Jenny Appleseed
• Jesus Was a Saviour, Too
• Johnny Built a House
• Just a Little Every Day
• Kennebunkport
• Kiss Her Good-bye
• Leave My Van Allen Belt Alone
• Let It Be
• Let Them Eat Cake
• Let Us Come In (Party Crasher's Carol)
• Let's Have a Picnic
• Like the Miller Grinds the Wheat
• Little Birds
• Little Bitty Mommy
• Little Boat
• Little Boxes
• Little Kids
• Lock the Windows
• Log of the Echo III
• Look on the Sunny Side
• Lost Children Street
• Lost in the Crowd
• Love Somebody
• Madwoman
• Magic Penny
• Magical Food
• Magical Song
• Mail Call
• Mailman Blues
• Malvina's Blues, or, It Ain't a Folk Song
• Mama's Gone
• Many Colors
• Mario's Duck
• Masquerade (Gray Power Song)
• May Flies Dance
• Meet Me at the Watergate
• Mommy's Girl
• Money Blues
• Moogical Love
• Morningtown Ride
• Move Over
• Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
• My Little Guitar
• My Street
• Nancy Newman of Liberty Hall
• Napalm
• Nestlé No!
• Never Argue with a Bee
• Never Touch a Singing Bird
• No Closing Chord
• No Hole in My Head
• No House
• No Place to Run
• No Room
• Nobody
• Not the Shadow of a Man
• Nothing to Say
• Nowhere Blues
• Oh, Doctor
• On My Own Feet
• On the Coat Tails of the Lord
• On the Rim of the World
• One More Ride
• One of the Family
• One Shoe
• Only a War
• Only Room for Two
• Osaka Train
• Outrageous
• Over and Over
• Overtime
• Patchwork of Dreams
• Pea Soup Song of Billings, Montana
• Peace Isn't Treason
• People
• People Are Tired
• Picket Line
• Place to Be
• Playing War
• Poor Worms
• Power Plant Reggae
• Pretty Thing
• Puget Boat Song
• Put On Your Hat
• Quiet
• Rabbits Dance
• Rachel's Lullaby
• Rail Birds
• Rand Hymn
• Red Bird
• Rejoice
• Ring Like a Bell
• Road Song
• Rosie Jane
• Run, Run, the Tree Is Falling
• Sally Don't You Grieve
• Sausalito Fire
• Say Something Nice
• Says the Bee
• Seabeck
• Senate Bill One
• Seventy Miles
• Shaggy Baggy Man
• She Got Lost
• Shelter from the Rain
• Sick People in Chicago
• Sick World
• Signature Blues
• Sing Along
• Singin Jesus
• Skagit Valley Forever
• Sleep, Come On By
• So Soon
• Something's After You
• Somewhere Between
• Song of the Nobodies
• Spooky World
• Star Flower
• Stone Stone
• Stranded on This Planet
• Street Corner Blues
• Sweet Stuff
• Swivel Chair Reserves
• Take It Away
• Take Me to Sandy Hook
• Take Two
• Temptation
• Ten Ton Blues
• That's Me
• The Alameda Mountains
• The Albatross
• The Bairnies Are Crying
• The Ballad of Robban's First Ride
• The Battle of Maxton Field
• The Birch Society
• The Bloody Neat
• The Boy Salutes
• The Cement Octopus
• The Corners of Your Mind
• The Day the Freeway Froze
• The Delinquent
• The Desert
• The Devil Is Talking
• The Devil's Baptizin
• The Dresses
• The Emperor's Nightingale
• The Falling of the Tree
• The Faucets Are Dripping
• The Fragile Sea
• The Gang Dancers
• The Genius
• The Girls from the Oyster House
• The Good Ship O'Connor
• The H. U. A. C.
• The Highway
• The Hills of Hey
• The Judge Said
• The Lambeth Children O
• The Last Time
• The Lazy Dog
• The Little Generals
• The Little Mermaid
• The Little Mouse
• The Little Red Hen
• The Man in the Mask
• The Man Says Jump
• The Moment
• The Money Crop
• The Montreal Vandals
• The New Restaurant
• The New York Song
• The Only Way
• The Pets
• The Pied Piper
• The Pitch
• The Plutonium Song
• The Pro-Life Boy
• The Rigatoni Song
• The Saigon Children
• The Shoppers' Game
• The Sick Business
• The Soul of an Onion
• The Stars are Hiding
• The Story of Old Monroe
• The Tour of the Irish Fusiliers
• The Walker Outside
• The Whale
• The Wise Men
• The World Slowed Down
• There'll Come a Time
• There's a Bottom Below
• There's Music in the Air
• They've Got Everything
• Thirty-Three Dollars
• This Dream I Have
• This House Is Your House
• This World
• To a Songwriter
• To-Ro March
• Tokyo Farewell
• Tony's Soup
• Too Many Pollywogs
• Too Much
• Too Much Blues
• Too Much Trouble
• Torch Song
• Tungsten
• Turn Around
• Turn On the Sun
• Turn to Your Sister
• Two Ways
• Uneasy
• Uneasy Dreams
• We Can Stop Here
• We Don't Need the Men
• We Hate to See Them Go
• What Happened to the Diners
• What Have They Done to the Rain?
• What Time Is It?
• What's Goin On Down There
• What's Small
• What's There to Sing About?
• What's Your Name
• Wheels
• When I Fly
• When It Goes, Goodbye
• When Papa Plays Accordion
• Where Did My Money Go?
• Where Is the Little Street?
• Where the Tempest Blows
• Where Were You?
• Who You Cryin To?
• Who's Going to Build the Ark?
• Women at Your Doors
• World Gone Beautiful
• World in Their Pocket
• Wrong Blues
• Ya Ha Ho
• You Ain't Sayin Nothin
• You Can Believe It
• You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out
• You Can't Make It That Way
• You'll Be a Man
• You're Crazy
• You're On!
• Young Moon