No, No Joe - Hank Williams

Now look here Joe, quit acting smart

Stop being that old brazen sort

Don’t you go sellin' this country short

No, no Joe

Just because you think you’ve found

The system that we know ain’t sound

Don’t you go throwin' your weight around

No, no Joe

'Cause the Kaiser tried it and Hitler tried it

Mussolini tried it too

Now they’re all sittin' around a fire and did you know something?

They’re saving a place for you

Now Joe you ought to get it clear

You can’t push folks around with fear

'Cause we don’t scare easy over here

No, no Joe

What makes you do the things you do?

You gettin' folks mad at you

Don’t bite off more’n you can chew

No, no Joe

'Cause you want a scrap that you can’t win

You don’t know what you’re getting in

Don’t go around leading with your chin

No, no Joe

Now you got tanks, some fair size tanks

But you’re acting like a clown

'Cause man we’ve got Yanks, a mess of Yanks

And you might get caught with your tanks down

Don’t go throwin' out your chest

You’ll pop the buttons off your vest

You’re playing with a hornets' nest

No, no Joe

You know, you think you’re somebody we should dread

Just because you’re seein' red

You better get that foolishness out of your head

No, no Joe

And you might be itchin' for a fight

Quit braggin' about how your bear can bite

'Cause you’re sitting on a keg of dynamite

No, no Joe