The Strange Death of John Doe - Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger

i’ll sing you a song and it’s not very long

it’s about a young man who never did wrong

suddenly he died one day

the reason why no one could say

he was tall and long and his arms were strong

and this is the strange part of my song

he was all as well from foot to head

and then one day they found him dead

they found him dead so i’ve been told

and his eyes were closed and his heart was whole

only one clue to why he died

a bayonet sticking in his side