1937 - Chase McBride

Darling, darling would you please

Come down to the river

Where I wash my feet

The water runs cold

Over soft blue stones

And the trees sing songs

While the wind blows on

Come on, sing oh

Sister, sister with your long face

Could you not find hope

In this green of a place

The worries of your world

Not the worries of your soul

We’ll drink with our friends

Til the sun comes up again

Come on, sing oh

Children, children we are taught to believe

We lose that faith, then we loose everything

Come on, come on with the war still going

We could change their minds if we sing it this time

Children, children will you not soon be

Shooting bullets in the dark just to call yourselves free

I don’t believe in the powers that be

They can claim their gods, but they steal and they rob from us

Are we not raised

Thinking money buys things that we need

I believe, to this day

Woman on the streets, whispering to her feet

Driven mad by a place full of noise and concrete

Water brings life, I ask then why

Do we drink our streams dry

Claiming all is well and right

I guess it is then

Children, children we are taught to believe

We lose that faith, then we loose everything

Come on, come on with the war still going

We could change their minds if we sing it this time

Children, children will you not soon be

Shooting bullets in the dark just to call yourselves free

I don’t believe in the powers that be

They can claim their gods, but they steal and they rob from us