What We're Fighting For

                                  My dearest mama, they just gave us time to write

I miss you and there's something on my mind tonight

At mail call, I received your letter here today

But I don't understand the things you say



You tell me there are people marching in our streets

The signs they carry say that we don't fight for peace

There's not a soldier in this foreign land, who likes this war

Oh mama, tell them what we're fighting for



Tell them that we're fighting for the old red, white and blue

Did they forget Pearl Harbor and Korea too

Another flag must never fly above our nation's door

Oh mama, tell them what we're fighting for



From Maine to California, there are many noble men

Who know the price of war and pray, we'd never fight again

But the world must learn, that we will fight, we will protect our shore

Oh mama, tell them what we're fighting for

Oh mama, tell them what we're fighting for

Oh mama, tell them what we're fighting for