歌词
歌曲名 Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)
歌手名 John Denver
作词:John Denver
作曲:John Denver
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 there's 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 can't 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
We're 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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