Take your mind back   I don't know when   Sometime when it always seemed to be just us and them   Girls that wore pink   And boys that wore blue   Boys that always grew up better men than me and you      What's a man now   What's a man mean   Is he rough or is he rugged?   Is he cultural and clean?   Now it's all changed, it's got to change more   'Cause we think it's gettin' better but nobody's really sure      And so it goes, go round again   But now and then we wonder who the real men are   Ohh, ohh   Ohh, ohh   Ahh      See the nice boys, dancin' in pairs   Golden earring golden tan   Blow-wave in the hair   Sure they're all straight, straight as a line   All the guys are macho   Can't you see the leather shine?      You don't want to sound dumb   Don't want to offend   So don't call me a faggot not unless you are a friend   Then if you're tall   And handsome and strong   You can wear the uniform and I could play along      And so it goes, go round again   But now and then we wonder who the real men are   Ohh, ohh   Ohh, ohh   Ahh      Time to get scared   Time to change plan   Don't know how to treat a lady   Don't know how to be a man   Time to admit, what you call defeat   'Cause there's women runnin' past you now and you just drag your feet      Man makes a gun   Man goes to war   Man can kill and man can drink and man can take a whore   Kill all the blacks   Kill all the reds   And if there's war between the sexes then there'll be no people left      And so it goes, go round again   But now and then we wonder who the real men are   Ohh, ohh   Ohh, ohh   Ahh