Crosby Stills & Nash - 49 Bye-Byes/America's Children lyrics

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Stephen Stills <br />

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Forty nine reasons all in a line <br />

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All of them good ones, all of them lies <br />

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Drifting with my lady, we're oldest of friends <br />

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Need a little work and there's fences to mend <br />

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Steady girl, she was my world <br />

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Till the drifter come, now she's gone <br />

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I let that man play his hand <br />

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I let them go, how was I to know <br />

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I'm down on my knees, nobody left to please <br />

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Now it's over, they left in the spring <br />

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Her and the drifter, lookin' for beautiful things<br />

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And I want you to clap your hands<br />

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Awwww Come on and clap your hands everybody<br />

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Yeah all right yeah all right yeah<br />

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And a little bit louder now<br />

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A little bit louder now<br />

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And a little bit louder now<br />

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Yes and a little bit louder now<br />

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Oh, you know there's something happening here <br />

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What it is ain't exactly clear <br />

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Yes there's a man with a gun over there <br />

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Telling me I got to be ware <br />

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And we got to stop children, what's that sound <br />

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Look what's going down <br />

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Ahh look what's going down<br />

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All right<br />

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What a field day, what a heat <br />

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Must have been a thousand people standing in the street <br />

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Singing songs and carrying signs<br />

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Come on, mostly say "hurray for our side"<br />

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And we got to stop children, what's that sound <br />

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Everybody look what's going down <br />

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All right, what's going down ah yes<br />

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Well it looks to me like there's a few politicians hanging around children<br />

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Purpertating some kind of myth on us all all right<br />

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Taking bout what a drag all the kids are yeah aahh<br />

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Cause they got the guts to get out in the strees and tell the truth every day aahh yes<br />

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Making it a little hot for them, you know all right<br />

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But you know that we're all just out there proving to <br />

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Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew and Richard Dailey and all them other, <br />

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Well whatever you want to call them<br />

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That America is still the home of the brave oh yes it is<br />

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And you got to be brave children<br />

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How many is it that they shot down already?<br />

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Something like seventeen of us.<br />

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But you know we gotta do it <br />

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We gotta keep on keeping on<br />

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Because if we don't do it nobody else is gonna<br />

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But you know if we can't do it with a smile on our face<br />

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You know if we can't love in our hearts then children we ain't got no right to do it at all<br />

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Because it just means we ain't learned nothing yet<br />

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We're supposed to be some kind of different Ahhh<br />

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Whoa Whoa Whoa oh yes<br />

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And I don't know if I want white America to remember or to forget<br />

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That Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary<br />

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Dig it ohh Dig it ooh right on Dig it yeah<br />

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You know that paranoia it strikes deep<br />

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Into your life it's going to creep<br />

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And it starts when you're always afraid<br />

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Step out of line the man comes <br />

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He's going to shoot you down<br />

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We've got to stop hey now what's that sound<br />

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Yeah we've got to stop and what's that sound yes<br />

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We've got to stop hey children what's that sound<br />

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What's going down oh yeah