Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song 49 Bye-Byes / America's Children , by - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Release date: 22.06.1992
Song language: English
49 Bye-Byes / America's Children |
| Forty nine reasons all in a line |
| All of them good ones, all of them lies |
| Drifting with my lady, we’re oldest of friends |
| Need a little work and there’s fences to mend |
| Steady girl, she was my world |
| Till the drifter come, now she’s gone |
| I let that man play his hand |
| I let them go, how was I to know |
| I’m down on my knees, nobody left to please |
| Now it’s over, they left in the spring |
| Her and the drifter, lookin' for beautiful things |
| And I want you to clap your hands |
| Awwww Come on and clap your hands everybody |
| Yeah all right yeah all right yeah |
| And a little bit louder now |
| A little bit louder now |
| And a little bit louder now |
| Yes and a little bit louder now |
| Oh, you know there’s something happening here |
| What it is ain’t exactly clear |
| Yes there’s a man with a gun over there |
| Telling me I got to be ware |
| And we got to stop children, what’s that sound |
| Look what’s going down |
| Ahh look what’s going down |
| All right |
| What a field day, what a heat |
| Must have been a thousand people standing in the street |
| Singing songs and carrying signs |
| Come on, mostly say «hurray for our side» |
| And we got to stop children, what’s that sound |
| Everybody look what’s going down |
| All right, what’s going down ah yes |
| Well it looks to me like there’s a few politicians hanging around children |
| Purpertating some kind of myth on us all all right |
| Taking bout what a drag all the kids are yeah aahh |
| Cause they got the guts to get out in the strees and tell the truth every day |
| aahh yes |
| Making it a little hot for them, you know all right |
| But you know that we’re all just out there proving to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew and Richard Dailey and all them other, |
| Well whatever you want to call them |
| That America is still the home of the brave oh yes it is And you got to be brave children |
| How many is it that they shot down already? |
| Something like seventeen of us. |
| But you know we gotta do it We gotta keep on keeping on Because if we don’t do it nobody else is gonna |
| But you know if we can’t do it with a smile on our face |
| You know if we can’t love in our hearts then children we ain’t got no right to do it at all |
| Because it just means we ain’t learned nothing yet |
| We’re supposed to be some kind of different Ahhh |
| Whoa Whoa Whoa oh yes |
| And I don’t know if I want white America to remember or to forget |
| That Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary |
| Dig it ohh Dig it ooh right on Dig it yeah |
| You know that paranoia it strikes deep |
| Into your life it’s going to creep |
| And it starts when you’re always afraid |
| Step out of line the man comes |
| He’s going to shoot you down |
| We’ve got to stop hey now what’s that sound |
| Yeah we’ve got to stop and what’s that sound yes |
| We’ve got to stop hey children what’s that sound |
| What’s going down oh yeah |