All the people on the village green Are gathered round their tv screens To hear the government about to speak For soldier boys and jesus freaks They go on heaven on their holidays The congregation hopes and prays They leave their letters in the mail box For lonely souls they could not save Off and on i used hear the call But she was just a baby doll And all around them were the holy men Who twist the words of way back when She willl kiss the sky And shelter the world from the rain Put another record on the jukebox She might dance the night away On and on we go And the rest of the world outside God may soon explode And there is no place we might hide (x2) On and on we go And we kiss this world goodbye And on and on and on and on All the people on the village green Are gathered round their tv screens To hear the government about to speak For soldier boys and jesus freaks