{"id":3129,"date":"2021-10-11T00:42:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:39:02","slug":"draft-dodger-rag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/draft-dodger-rag\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Dodger Rag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EOtJqG634j4&amp;list=PLLAAcCXYXLrqImJHyiJ9P1klkuM-4Oa2U&amp;index=21&amp;pp=iAQB8AUB\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/EOtJqG634j4\/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFBCNACELwBSFryq4qpAzMIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGGUgXyhMMA8=&amp;rs=AOn4CLAkxIvDsc7i2zYjxm9Zhdd0ho1GQQ\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Cahoots:\u00a0 Hobs Hobgood<\/span><\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea91942626d8078046493' value='69ea91942626d8078046493'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea91942626d8078046493' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea91942626d8078046493' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea91942626d8078046493' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea91942626d8078046493' >\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>The question came up &#8220;Does working in a Defense Plant count as Active Duty?&#8221; According to Public Law 106-398, &#8220;&#8230;working in a Government-Owned and Government Operated Facility counts as Active Duty.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div> [C] [D] [G7]<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"> Phil Ochs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[Verse 1] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[C] I&#8217;m just a typical American boy from a [D] typical American town. [G7] I believe in God and Senator Dodd and [C] keeping old Castro down. [C] And when it came my time to serve, I [D] knew better dead than red.\u00a0 But when I [G7] got to my ol&#8217; draft board, buddy this is what I [C] said:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[C] Sarge, I&#8217;m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen, And I [D] always carry a purse. I got [G7] eyes like a bat, and my feet are flat, and my [C] asthma&#8217;s getting worse. Oh, [C] think of my career, my sweetheart dear, my [D] poor old invalid aunt.\u00a0 Besides, I [G7] ain&#8217;t no fool, I&#8217;m going to school, and I&#8217;m working in a defense [C] plant.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[Verse 2] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">I got a [C] dislocated disc, and a racked up back, I&#8217;m [D] allergic to flowers and bugs, and when the [G7] bombshell hits I get epileptic fits, and I&#8217;m [C] addicted to a thousand drugs. I got the [C] weakness woes, I can&#8217;t touch my toes, I can [D] hardly reach my knees. and if the [G7] enemy came close to me, I&#8217;d probably start to [C] sneeze.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[Verse 3] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">I hate [C] Chou En Lai and I hope he dies, but [D] one thing you gotta see, that [G7] someone&#8217;s gotta go over there, and that [C] someone isn&#8217;t me.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"> \u00a0 So I [C] wish you well, Sarge, give &#8217;em hell, Yeah, [D] kill me a thousand or so.\u00a0\u00a0 And [G7] if you ever get a war without blood and gore, Well I&#8217;ll be the first to [C] go.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cahoots:\u00a0 Hobs Hobgood [C] [D] [G7] Phil Ochs [Verse 1] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [C] I&#8217;m just a typical American boy from a [D] typical American town. [G7] I believe in God and Senator Dodd and [C] keeping old Castro down. [C] And when it came my time to &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/draft-dodger-rag\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Draft Dodger Rag<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,133,126,116,117,115,68,94,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-patriotic-songs","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27567,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/27567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}