The Box

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• 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
• Don't 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 there's 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 that's 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

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