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 to swore
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 flag
Oh, mama, tell them what we're fighting for
From Maine to California
There are many noblemen
Who know the price of war
And pray we'd never fight again
But the world must learn
To learn to fight again





That we will fight
We will protect our shores
Oh, mama, tell them what we're fighting for
Oh, mama, tell them what we're fighting for