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| John Denver lyrics
The Box lyrics
Once upon a time
in the land of Hush-a-Bye
around about those wondrous days of yore,
they came across a sort of box
bound up with chains, and locked with locks
and labeled, ";Kindly do not touch, it's WAR.";
Well, a decree was issued 'round about
all with a flourish and a shout
and a gaily coloured mascot tripping light lightly on before.
Saying, ";Please don't fiddle with this box,
or break the chains, or pick the locks,
and don't ever mess about with war.";
Now, the children understood,
children happen to be good,
and they were just as good around the time of yore.
They didn't try to pick the locks,
or break into that deadly box,
and they never ever messed about with war.
Sisters didn't either;
Mommies, aunts, grannies neither.
'Cause they were quite and sweet and pretty in those wondrous days of yore.
Well, much the same as now,
and not the ones to blame somehow
for opening up that deadly box of war.
But someone did.
Someone battered in the lid,
and spread the insides out across the floor.
A sort of bouncy, bumpy ball
made of guns and flags and all the tears and horror and the death
that goes with war.
Well, it bounced right out
and went crashing all about
and bumping into everything in store.
And what was sad and most unfair
was that it didn't really seem to care
much who it bumped, or why, or what, or for.
It bumped the children mainly,
and I'll tell you this quite plainly;
it bumps them every day and more,
and leaves them dead and burned and dying,
thousands of them sick and crying -
'cause when it bumps it's really very sore.
There is a way to stop the ball.
It isn't difficult at all.
All it takes is wisdom and I'm absolutely sure
we could get it back into the box
and bind the chains and lock the locks
but no-one seems to want to save the children anymore.
Well, that's the way it all appears,
'cause it's been bouncing around for years and years.
In spite of all the wisdom whizzed since those wondrous days of yore.
And the day they came upon the box
bound up with chains, and locked with locks,
and labeled, ";Kindly do not touch, it's WAR.";
John Denver
Poems, Prayers and Promises album
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Wooden Indian lyrics
Paradise lyrics
Prisoners lyrics
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Angels From Montgomery lyrics
Whiskey Basin Blues lyrics
Zachary and Jennifer lyrics
Cool An¡¯ Green An¡¯ Shady lyrics
It¡¯s Up To You lyrics
On The Road lyrics
Annie¡¯s Other Song lyrics
Mother Nature¡¯s Son lyrics
Summer lyrics
Toledo lyrics
Forest Lawn lyrics
A Baby Just Like You lyrics
Coventry Carol lyrics
Jingle Bells lyrics
Oh Holy Night lyrics
Please Daddy (Don¡¯t Get Drunk This Christmas) lyrics
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire ) lyrics
The Music Is You lyrics
White Christmas lyrics
Cowboy¡¯s Delight lyrics
Late Night Radio lyrics
Love Is Everywhere lyrics
Shipmates and Cheyenne lyrics
Two Shots lyrics
Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight lyrics
Eleanor Rigby lyrics
Eli¡¯s Song lyrics
Golden Slumbers lyrics
Hitchhiker lyrics
It Makes Me Giggle lyrics
Old Folks lyrics
Pegasus lyrics
San Antonio Rose lyrics
Sweet Sweet Life lyrics
The Game Is Over lyrics
The Wings That Fly Us Home lyrics
Whose Garden Was This? lyrics
Wrangle Mountain Song lyrics
Welcome To My Morning lyrics
Druthers lyrics
To the Wild Country lyrics
Tradewinds lyrics
Berkeley Woman lyrics
Downhill Stuff lyrics
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Mr Bojangles lyrics
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