Private John Q - Roger Miller, Hank Cochran

Well I read in the papers and I see it on the televison

Everybody’s scared about the World War Three

Here I am a single boy unemployment and everything

Somebody better stop and worry bout me

Well can’t you just see me now chin up chest out

A-hup two three fout all day through

Everybody seems to be worried about a somethin' other

Who’s gonna worry bout Private John Q rumbumbaduba

Sometimes I get dishearted and try hard not to think about it

Heaven knows it’s hard to keep from lettin' it get me down

But I’ll stand proud when everybody else will be

Runnin' helter-shelter for a shelter underground

Well can’t you just see me now…

When I’s a little boy I used to sit and dream of travelin'

To lotsa foreign countries on a sight seein' tours

The way it’s lookin' now I can stop savin' money maybe

Go free sponsored by a Third World War

Well can’t you just see me now…

Well can’t you just see me now…