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Many's the hour I've lain by my window

and thought of the people who carried the burden

Who marched in the strange fields in search of an answer

And ended their journeys an unwilling hero


So here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why

And a toast of the wine at the end of the line

And a toll of the bell for the next one to die


Back in the coal fields of old Harlan county

Some talked of the union, some talked of good wages

And they lined them up in the dark of the forests

And shot them down without asking no questions


So here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why

And a toast of the wine to the end of the line

And a toll of the bell for the next one to die


And over the ocean, to the red Spanish soil

Came the lincoln brigade with their dreams

But they fell in the fire of germany's bombing

And they fell 'cause no one would hear their sad warning


So here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why

And a toast of the wine at the end of the line

And a toll of the bell for the next one to die

In old Alabama, in old Mississippi

Two states of the union so often found guilty

They came on the buses, they came on the marches

And they lay in the jails or they fell by the highway


So here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why

And a toast of the wine at the end of the line

And a toll of the bell for the next one to die


The state it was texas, the town it was Dallas

In the flash of a rifle a life was soon over

And nobody thought of the past million murders

And the long list of irony had found a new champion


So here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why

And a toast of the wine at the end of the line

And a toll of the bell for the next one to die 

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Outside the cats are scratching Inside the doors are latching On the room, the greedy gloom The trial is revealed Police are six feet deep With switch...

The Bells

Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells What a world of merriment Their melody foretells How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of...

What Are You Fighting For?

Oh you tell me that theres danger to the land you call your own And you watch them build the war machine right beside your home And you tell me that...

The Torture Garden

You've seen the artist at work; now you can watch him at his leisure No, there must be some mistake, I've only come here to deliver the carnival No, t...

The Marines Have Landed On The Shores Of Santo Domingo

And the crabs are crazy, they scuttle back and forth, The sand is burning And the fish take flight and scatter from the sight, their courses turning...

The Party

The fire-breathing rebels arrive at the party early Their khaki coats are hung in the closet near the fur Asking handouts from the ladies, while they...

The Floods Of Florence

Picasso leans out of the window, looks out on the ghetto Changing the shapes he sees. His old friend El Greco, soon is expected, Now just an echo of S...

United Fruit

And the fruit boats ride on the waves, And the crew will dream of returning Back to the Florida waters, For the work of unloading onto the trains. An...

This Old World Is Changing Hands

Oh, a thousand marching armies and a million marching men have won the wide world over and lost it back again, But now the word has gone to ev'ry fall...

The War Is Over

Silent soldiers on a silver screen Framed in fantasies and dragged in dream Unpaid actors of the mystery The mad director knows that freedom will n...

The Passing Of My Life

I've seen rivers red with blood, I've seen valleys filled with mud; I've seen stormy seas that pound upon the shore. I've seen mountains strewn wit...

The World Began In Eden And Ended In Los Angeles

Don't you think it's time that we were leaving? For another chance, another place to start Desperate ones that went across the ocean And they wondered...

The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns

Sailors climb the tree, up the terrible tree Where are my shipmates have they sunk beneath the sea? I do not know much, but I know this cannot be It i...

The Sad And Silent Song Of A Soldier

And the flag draped coffins are a sailin' home And the waves are watching as the engine drones As the ship draws near, hear the bugle moan The sad an...

What's That I Hear?

What's that I hear now ringing in my ear I've heard that sound before What's that I hear now ringing in my ear I hear it more and more It's the sound...

There But For Fortune

Show me a prison, show me a jail Show me a prisoner, man, whose face is growin' pale And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why And there but...

Viet Nam

U.S. soldiers are a-dying over there, over there as the status quo remains over there U.S. soldiers are a-dying while their mothers sit home crying it...

The Thresher

In Portsmouth town on the eastern shore Where many a fine ship was born. The Thresher was built And the Thresher was launched And the crew of the...

We Seek No Wider War

Over the ashes of blood marched the civilized soldiers, Over the ruins of the french fortress of a failure Over the silent screams of the dead and the...

When First Unto This Country

When first unto this country a stanger I came, I fought the Revolution, peace and quiet was my aim. When the Indians attacked us, at least that's what...

Too Many Martyrs

In the state of Mississippi many years ago A boy of 14 years got a taste of southern law He saw his friend a hanging and his color was his crime An...

Time Was

Time was when a man could live alone A man could build a home, have a family of his own The peaceful years would flow, he could watch his children gro...