All My Children Of The Sun

All my children of the sun
 The navigator said to the engineer
 I think our radio's dead
 I can hear but I can't send
 And there's bad weather up ahead
 The pilot said to the co-pilot
 Our right engine's gone
 But if we can make it over these mountains
 Perhaps I can set her down
 All my children of the sun
 Five hundred miles from nowhere
 We belly landed on a river
 We bid a quick goodbye
 To that ship of silver
 Twenty-five piled out the window
 Twenty reached the shore
 We turned to see our metal bird
 Sink to rise no more
 All my children of the sun
 We found some floating logs
 We found some sharp stones
 We cut some vines and made a raft
 It was our only hope
 The navigator said he thought there was
 A town somewhere downstream
 So now each man tried his best
 To paddle as a team
 All except one young guy
 Who kept arguing with the navigator
 He said he'd read about a waterfall
 We would come to sooner or later
 At a river's bend he persuaded us
 To bring our raft to beach
 But a search party found the river smooth
 As far as eye could reach
 All my children of the sun
 Once again he persuaded us to stop
 We cursed at the delay
 Once again we found the river
 Flowing on the same old way
 We said, "Shut up your arguing
 You give us all a pain
 Why don't you pitch in and do your part
 Be constructive for a change?"
 All my children of the sun
 Still egghead kept on talking
 In the same long winded way
 We said, "If you won't paddle
 Get the hell out of our way"
 We told him to go sit
 Far back at the stern
 Then we strained to paddle harder
 And then the river made a turn
 All my children of the sun
 One paddler heard sound of tapping
 And what he saw, when he did turn
 Was egghead with a sharp stone
 Cutting the vines that bound the stern
 With a cry of rage the paddler
 Leaped up to his feet
 He swung his long pole
 Knocked egghead into the deep
 But now the logs were splaying out
 The raft had come unbound
 Like mad we paddled for the shore
 Before we all would drown
 All my children of the sun
 A search party went out to find more vines
 To tie the raft up tight
 In twenty minutes they returned
 Their faces pale with fright
 They said a quarter mile down the river
 We found a waterfall
 It's over a hundred feet in height
 It could have killed us all
 All my children of the sun
 And that is why on the banks
 Of a far off wilderness stream
 Which none of us, none of us
 Will ever see again
 There stands a cross for someone
 Hardly older than a boy
 Who we thought was only
 Trying to destroy
 All my children of the sun