โหลดเพลง mp3 Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For) (Live at Five Seasons Center, Cedar Rapids, IA - December 1987) - John Denver

Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For) - John Denver (约翰·丹佛)
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