49 Bye-Byes / America's Children - Live

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