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JOHN DENVER lyrics : "Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)"

I am the son of a grassland farmer
Western Oklahoma nineteen forty three
I always felt grateful to live in the land of the free

I gave up my father to South Korea
The mind of my brother to Vietnam
Now theres a banker who says I must give up my land

There are four generations of blood in this topsoil
Four generations of love on this farm
Before I give up I would gladly give up my right arm


What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine

We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for


I had a son and my son was a soldier
He was so like my father, he was so much like me

To be a good comrade was the best that he dreamed he could be
He gave up his future to revolution
His life to a battle that just cant be won

For this is not living, to live at the point of a gun
I remember the nine hundred days of Leningrad
The sound of the dying, the cut of the cold

I remember the moments I prayed I would never grow old








What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine

We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for


For the first time in my life I feel like a prisoner
A slave to the ways of the powers that be

And I fear for my children, as I fear for the for the future I
see
Tell me how can it be were still fighting each other

What does it take for a people to learn
If our song is not sung as a chorus, we surely will burn


What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine
We take it right out of the mouths of our babies

Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for


Have we forgotten
All the lives that were given
All the vows that were taken

Saying never again
Now for the first time
This could be the last time

If peace is our vision
Let us begin


Have we forgotten
All the lives that were given
All the vows that were taken

Saying never again, never again
Now for the first time
This could be the last time

If peace is our vision
Let us begin, let us begin

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