歌曲名 Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For) 歌手名 John Denver

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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 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