Home of the Brave

[Verse 1]
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 of the mothers
Say he ought to look like the others

[Chorus]
Home of the brave, land of the free
Why won't you let him be what he wants to be?

[Verse 2]
The kids all laugh at his hair and his 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

[Chorus]
Home of the brave, land of the free
Why won't you let him be what he wants to be?

[Verse 3]
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?

[Outro]
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's just a little bit different
Why won't you let him be what he wants to be?
You gotta understand him
Why won't you let him be what he wants to be?