words and music by Arlo Guthrie



There's trouble all around the world

Well, it looks that way to me

People don't know what to do

They don't know where they should be



But just one question still remains

To which we must respond

Two roads lead from where we are

Which side are you on



CHORUS:

Are you on, boys

Which side are you on

Which side are you on, boys

Which side are you on



Moses crossed the desert

With a band of weary men

For forty years they wandered through

The hot and burning sand



And Moses went and prayed alone

The weary vagabond

And lightning wrote these words in stone

Which side are you on



CHORUS



Jesus stumbling through the streets

On the road to Calvary

Nailed high to testify

With other local thieves



And as they hung there dying

One asked what lay beyond

That all depends the master said

Which side are you on



CHORUS



Some men work for little things

And some men work for more

Some men work for anything

And some don't work at all



And me mysef I'm satisfied

To sing for God's own son

And ask you what I ask myself

Which side are you on