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YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE IN THE ARMY TO FIGHT IN THE WAR (Ray Dorset)

When you’re girlfriend asks you round to her house and you meet her folks,

This song was first released as a single in 1971 and is the title track of the third album.

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And they say that you’re hair’s too long and you’re not their kind of bloke,

They grab you by the collar and they throw you through the door,

You don’t have to be in the army to fight in the war.

You’re working very hard to get promotion at your job,

But arrive late one morning just because you missed the bus,

The foreman says you’re fired because you’re punctuality’s poor,

You don’t have to be in the army to fight in the war.

Then you go into a hotel to get put up for the night,

And they say that you can’t stay there just because you’re shirt ain’t white,

You’re tired and you’re hungry and you cannot walk no more,

You don’t have to be in the army to fight in the war.

Got no money, got no woman, got no roof above your head,

So you lie down in the park and you wish that you were dead,

The fuzz says you are trespassing and kicks you in the jaw,

You don’t have to be in the army to fight in the war.