Long Ago, Far Away - Witmark Demo - 1962

To preach of peace and brotherhood
 Oh, what might be the cost
 A man, he did it long ago
 And they hung him on a cross
 Long ago, far away
 Those things don't happen nowadays
 The chains of slaves
 They dragged the ground
 With heads and hearts hung low
 But it was during Lincoln's time
 And it was long ago
 Long ago, far away
 Those things like that don't happen
 No more, nowadays, do they?
 The war guns they bombed and blazed
 The whole world bled its blood
 Men's bodies rotted on the ground
 As their graves were made in mud
 Long ago, far away
 Those kind of things don't happen
 No more, nowadays
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 One man had much money
 One man had not enough to eat
 One man, he lived just like a king
 The other man begged on the street
 Long ago, far away
 Things like that don't happen
 No more, nowadays
 One man died of a knife so sharp
 One man died from the bullet of a gun
 One man died of a broken heart
 To see the lynchin' of his son
 Long ago, far away
 Things like that don't happen
 No more, nowadays
 Gladiators killed themselves
 It was during the roman times
 People cheered with bloodshot grins
 As eye and minds went blind
 Long ago, far away
 Things like that don't happen
 No more, nowadays
 And to talk of peace and brotherhood
 Oh, what might be the cost
 A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross
 Long ago, far away
 Things like that don't happen
 No more, nowadays, do they?