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Joan Baez - Where Are You Now, My Son? Lyrics

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  • It's walking to the battleground that always makes me cry
  • I've met so few folks in my time who weren't afraid to die
  • But dawn bleeds with the people here and morning skies are red
  • As young girls load up bicycles with flowers for the dead
  • An aging woman picks along the craters and the rubble
  • A piece of cloth, a bit of shoe, a whole lifetime of trouble
  • A sobbing chant comes from her throat and splits the morning air
  • The single son she had last night is buried under her
  • They say that the war is done
  • Where are you now, my son?
  • An old man with unsteady gait and beard of ancient white
  • Bent to the ground with arms outstretched faltering in his plight
  • I took his hand to steady him, he stood and did not turn
  • But smiled and wept and bowed and mumbled softly, "Danke shoen"
  • The children on the roadsides of the villages and towns
  • Would stand around us laughing as we stood like giant clowns
  • The mourning bands told whom they'd lost by last night's phantom messenger
  • And they spoke their only words in English, "Johnson, Nixon, Kissinger"
  • Now that the war's being won
  • Where are you now, my son?
  • The siren gives a running break to those who live in town
  • Take the children and the blankets to the concrete underground
  • Sometimes we'd sing and joke and paint bright pictures on the wall
  • And wonder if we would die well and if we'd loved at all
  • The helmetless defiant ones sit on the curb and stare
  • At tracers flashing through the sky and planes bursting in air
  • But way out in the villages no warning comes before a blast
  • That means a sleeping child will never make it to the door
  • The days of our youth were fun
  • Where are you now, my son?
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