โหลดเพลง mp3 The Box - John Denver

Once upon a time in the land of hushabye
Around about the wondrous days of yore

I came across a sort of box
Bound up with chains and locked with locks

And labelled kindly do not touch, it's war

Decree was issued round about
All with a flourish and a shout
And a gaily coloured mascot tripping lightly on before

Dont fiddle with this deadly box or
break the chains or pick the locks

And please, don't ever play about with war

Well, the children understood

Children happen to be good

They were just as good around the time of yaw

They didn't try to pick the locks,
or break into that deadly box

They never tried to play about with war

Mummies didn't either
Sisters, aunts, grannies neither
Cause they were quiet and sweet

and pretty in those wondrous days of yaw

Well, very much the same as now,

not the ones to blame somehow

For opening up that deadly box of war

But someone did

Someone battered in the lid

And spilled the insides out across the floor

A sort of bouncy, bumpy ball made up
of guns and flags and all the tears
and horror and the death that goes with war

It bounced right out
And went bashing all about
And bumping into everything and stored
And what was sad and most unfair is
that it didn't seem to care who much 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 more,
and leaves them dead and burned and dying
Thousands of them sick and crying

Cause when it bumps, it's really very sore

Now theres a way to stop the ball
It isn't difficult at all
All it takes is wisdom, I'm absolutely
sure that we could get it back into the box

And buy the chains and lock the locks

No one seems to want to save the children any more

Well, thats the way it all appears

Cause it's been bouncing round for years and years

In spite of all the wisdom wiz since
those wondrous days of yaw

And the time they came across the box

Bound up with chains and locked with locks

And labelled kindly do not touch, it's war

The Box - John Denver