Home Of The Brave

Jody Miller

(B. Mann-C. Weil)



The school board says "he can't come to school, no more"

unless he wears his hair like he wore it before.

The PTA and all the mothers, say he ought to look like the others.



Home of the brave, land of the free

why won't you let him be what he wants to be



The kids all laugh at his hair and funny clothes.

And more than once he's gone home with a bloody nose

he's not like them and they can't ignore it. So they all hate him for it.



Home of the brave, land of the free

why won't you let him be what he wants to be



It really burns me up, when they put him down

He's the only one whose saying something in this whole town

Instead of those the trouble they hand him, why don't they try to understand him.



Home of the brave, land of the free

why won't you let him be what he wants to be

he never hurt nobody,

why won't you let him be what he wants to be

he just a little bit different.

why won't you let him be what he wants to be

You got to understand him.

why won't you let him be what he wants to be



Transcribed by Robert Smith

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording

and are for personal use and research interest only.