Gone flag fishin’
John Prine: “Oh but your flag decal won’t get you into heaven any more. …”
Oh but your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more.
We’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little wars.
Now Jesus he don’t like killin’
No matter what the reason is for,
And your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more.
Copyright © 1971 by John Prine.
Each day as I drive to work I still see monster SUVs sporting big U.S. flag decals on the back. And often they also have an Ichthus symbol nearby.
[Internal, nonverbal turbulence, sorrow ensues.]
Oh, John Prine, poet of my youth, I had forgotten your lyric on this very subject!
Many thanks to Ralph for reminding me.
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Speaking of flag decals - ever notice how if a car or truck has one flag decal on it, they'll have MORE than one?
It's like a new form of garlic against vampires. I guess they reason that if ONE flag decal protects you against Evil, more flag decals will protect you even MORE against Evil.
— NYCO Friday March 19, 2004 #Funny enough, I had the same thought, or song rather, go through my head a while back while stopped behind a Japanese SUV with a honkin' big flag sticker on the back. I recalled how back in the 70's no one dared put a 'merican flag on a foreign car. These days all the cars are foreign, Toyota is the #1 seller of cars in the US, and a Toyota SUV is somehow more America-cum-Macho than a US built escort.
— Toof Wednesday March 24, 2004 #