Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore — John Prine
Chords and lyrics for Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore by John Prine (key of C).
Verse 1
[C]Well while digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A [C7]flag decal, with gum on the back,
[F]Fell out on the floor.
So I picked it up and I ran outside
And I [C7]slapped on my windowshield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross now
[F]I tell her how good I [G]feel.
Chorus
[F]Oh but your flag decal won't get you
[C]Into Heaven any more.
[G]They're already overcrowded
[F]From your dirty little [C]wars.
[F]Now Jesus he don't like killin'
[C]No matter what the reason if for,
[G]And your flag decal won't get you
[G7]Into Heaven any [C]more.
Verse 2
[C]Well I went into the bank this morning
And the teller she said to me,
[C7]If you join our Christmas club
[F]We'll give you ten of those flags for free.
So I didn't mess around a bit
And I [C7]took her up on what she said.
And I stuck those stickers all over my car
[F]And one on my [G]wife's forehead.
Chorus
[F]Oh but your flag decal won't get you
[C]Into Heaven any more.
[G]They're already overcrowded
[F]From your dirty little [C]wars.
[F]Now Jesus he don't like killin'
[C]No matter what the reason if for,
[G]And your flag decal won't get you
[G7]Into Heaven any [C]more.
Verse 3
[C]Well I got my car so stickered up
That I couldn't see.
[C7]Then I ran it right upside a curb
[F]And then right into a tree.
By the time they called a doctor down
[C7]I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
[F]Standing at the Pearly [G]Gates said...
Final Chorus
[F]Oh but your flag decal won't get you
[C]Into Heaven any more.
[G]We're already overcrowded
[F]From your dirty little [C]wars.
[F]Now Jesus he don't like killin'
[C]No matter what the reason is for,
[G]And your flag decal won't get you
[G7]Into Heaven any [C]more.