Stones In The Road - Joan Baez

When we were young

We pledged allegiance

every morning of our lives

The classroom rang with children's voices

under teacher's watchful eye

We learned about the world around us

at our desks and at dinnertime

Reminded of the starving children

We cleaned our plates with guilty minds

And the stones in the road

we played like marbles in the dust

Until a voice called for us to

make our way back home

Stones in the road

When I was ten

My father held me on his shoulders

above the crowd

To see a train draped in mourning

pass slowly through our town

His widow kneeled with all her children

at the sacred burial ground

The TV glowed that long hot summer with

all the cities burning down

Stones in the road flew out

from our bicycle tires

Worlds removed from all those fires

as we raced each other home

Stones in the road

Stones

And now we drink our coffee on the run

And climb that ladder rung by rung

We are the daughters and the sons

and here's the line that's missing

The starving children have been replaced

By souls out on the street

We give a dollar

When we pass and hope our eyes don't meet

We pencil in we cancel out

We crave the corner suite

We kiss your ass we make you hold

We doctor the receipt

Stones in the road leave a mark

from whence

The other day the other day befor

we get back home

Stones in the road we played like

marbles once in OK

A thousand points of light or sham

Baby

I don't know

Stones in the road

Stones in the road