Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
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Tune:John Prine
Category:Fun
Link:Performance Example
Notes:A satirical anti-war song by John Prine poking fun at superficial patriotism.

While digeGsting Reader's Digest

In the baCck of a dirty book store,

A plD7astic flag, with gum on the back,

Fell out on the flGoor.

Well, I picked it up and I ran outside

Slapped on my windowshiCeld,

And if D7I could see old Betsy Ross

I tell her how good I fGeel.

 

Chorus:

But your fClag decal won't get you

Into HeGaven any more.

They're alD7ready overcrowded

From your diGrty little wG7ar.

Now JeCsus don't like killin'

No matter wGhat the reason's for,

And your fD7lag decal won't get you

Into Heaven any mGore. Bb C D7

 

Well, I wGent to the bank this morning

And the casChier he said to me,

"ID7f you join the Chrismas club

We'll give you ten of them flags for frGee."

Well, I didn't mess around a bit

I tG7ook her up on what he sCaid.

And I stD7uck them stickers all over my car

And one on my wife's forehGead.

 

Chorus:

But your fClag decal won't get you

Into HeGaven any more.

They're alD7ready overcrowded

From your diGrty little wG7ar.

Now JeCsus don't like killin'

No matter wGhat the reason's for,

And your fD7lag decal won't get you

Into Heaven any mGore. Bb C D7

 

Well, I gGot my windowshield so filled

With flags I couldn't sCee.

So, I rD7an the car upside a curb

And right into a trGee.

By the time they got a doctor down

GI was already dCead.

And I'll neD7ver understand why the man

Standing in the Pearly Gates saGid...

 

But your fClag decal won't get you

Into HeGaven any more.

We're alD7ready overcrowded

From your diGrty little wG7ar.

Now JeCsus don't like killin'

No matter wGhat the reason's for,

And your fD7lag decal won't get you

Into Heaven any mGore. C G

 

 

Chords Used

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