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code He was born in a small town And he was given every reason to stay Hallelujah, Mississippi, postcard living no sign of decay 'Til Vietnam moved next door, then Hallelujah was off to war In the dream he couldn't finish the deed He didn't smoke any weed so why leave?

Going where I can't be found And I won't be coming 'round

His father Tom said you better sign on You'd better take up your gun and fight I got nothing against them Viet Cong What did they do wrong and why am I right?

He's on his way to Thunder Bay Crossed the border late at night And it was high stakes until he saw the Great Lakes And he felt the cold wind bite

Going where I can't be found And I won't be coming 'round No, I'm an American on the Canadian Shield And I'm putting down roots in your frozen fields It gets cold but you feel so good to be a stranger in town and you're understood

Missing his home, he would wake up in a cold sweat And pick up the phone and hope that Tom found a way to forget He's been teaching at the high school, learning the game In Thunder Bay we're all the same He's one of us, he has our trust But there's no going back once the line is crossed

I'm an American on the Canadian Shield And I'm putting down roots in your frozen fields It gets cold but you feel so good to be a stranger in town and you're understood

You can't ask what you're asking me to do And I hope you understand when I refuse I'm going North with my point of view And I'm never gonna think the same as you And I'm where I can't be found And I won't be coming round

No, I'm an American on the Canadian Sheild And I'm putting down roots in your frozen fields It gets cold but you feel so good to be a stranger in town and you're understood

code 1.I chose this song because it shows what people were willing to do to escape the vietnam war, which some people didn't believe was right.

2. This songs message is about how a boy runs away from his home and goes all the way to Canada to escape the draft for the vietnam war. I think it really shows the commitment the anti-war believers had and how they were willing to leave their homes and what they knew to get away from something that they thought was wrong.

3. I think the lyrics to this song also provoke the idea of running away from the draft. At the end of the song it seems like the boy running away from the draft was eventually proud of what he did which might have made other anti-war activists want to do the same.

4. This song might inspire some people in this time period but others might disapprove of it because of the fact that when someone runs away from a draft they are breaking the law and can be put in jail. In some peoples minds doing something like this would be wrong.

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