Where have all our heroes gone what's come over
our great land America is still my home sweet home
but where have all our heroes gone I saw a group
of boys the other day standing in the corner of a
playground Looking and laughin' at a magazine And
I overheard one of the boys said man is he ever
cool And he pointed to the man who's picture was
on the magazine cover And everybody kinda said
under their breath yeah he's cool alright And I
got sick to my stomach Because I'd seen the cover
and the man that they were talking about Had
instigated a riot in one of our major cities last
summer And the magazine was writing about how the
police were unkind to him The judges were not fair
with him And how he talked back and slung his long
hair about and cussed And did his things and they
made him into a regular hero And inside this
magazine was the story of a baseball player Who
got involted with the gamblers Of the football
player who said that football was not the end Just
a mean to an end meanin' the girls and the good
times And a story of a folk singer who proudly
claims To be both a member of a party ailen to our
government and a nontax payin' citizen These young
boys read with open eyes and open minds And I
thought to myself my God Are these the people that
these young boys look up to Are these their idols
are these the heroes of the now generation
(America is still my home sweet home but where
have all our heroes gone) I had heroes when I was
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/uNFa kid we all did and our heroes did their thing
too Like General Douglas McArthur who returned
like he said he would Like Gene Autry and Roy
Rogers who chased the bad guys right off the
screen Like Lindberg who flew the ocean and Jesse
Owens who showed Hitler And John Wayne and Gerry
Cooper after all didn't they really win the war
And General Ike bless your soul cause he made us
feel safe We've killed some of our recent heroes
the Kennedys and Kings And even as great as their
space feats are How many of the astronauts can you
name huh how many My heroes were people like Joe
DiMaggio who proved that nice guys can finish
first And Stan Musian who never had an unkind word
for anybody And Winston Churchill who's two
fingers raised together meant victory Not just a
let-your-enemy-have-it-all kind of artificial
peace This country needs a lotta things today
friends But it doesn't need any one thing anymore
than it needs some real heroes Men who know what
it means to be looked up to by a griny faced kid
Men who wanna sign autograph books and not deal
under the table Men who are willing to play the
game with the people who made them heroes Men who
don't mind putting on a white hat and saying thank
you and please I wish I knew more men that I'd be
proud of for my son to look up to and say Daddy
when I grow up I want to be just-like-him (Where
have all our heroes gone)