John Denver John Denver - Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?) Lyrics

Let Us Begin (what Are We Making Weapons For?)This song was first released on the One World Album. It is the only album it
appears on.I am the son of a grassland farmerWestern Oklahoma
nineteen forty threeI always felt grateful to live in the land of the
freeI gave up my father to South KoreaThe mind of my brother to
VietnamNow theres a banker who says I must give up my landThere are
four generations of blood in this topsoilFour generations of love on this
farmBefore I give up I would gladly give up my right armWhat are we
making weapons forWhy keep on feeding the war machineWe take it right
out of the mouths of our babiesTake it away from the hands of the
poorTell me, what are we making weapons forI had a son and my son
was a soldierHe was so like my father, he was so much like meTo be a
good comrade was the best that he dreamed he could beHe gave up his future
to revolutionHis life to a battle that just cant be wonFor this is not
living, to live at the point of a gunI remember the nine hundred days of
LeningradThe sound of the dying, the cut of the coldI remember the
moments I prayed I would never grow oldWhat are we making weapons
forWhy keep on feeding the war machineWe take it right out of the
mouths of our babiesTake it away from the hands of the poorTell me,
what are we making weapons forFor the first time in my life I feel like
a prisonerA slave to the ways of the powers that beAnd I fear for my
children, as I fear for the for the future I seeTell me how can it be were
still fighting each otherWhat does it take for a people to learnIf our
song is not sung as a chorus, we surely will burnWhat are we making
weapons forWhy keep on feeding the war machineWe take it right out of
the mouths of our babiesTake it away from the hands of the poorTell me,
what are we making weapons forHave we forgottenAll the lives that
were givenAll the vows that were takenSaying never againNow for the
first timeThis could be the last timeIf peace is our visionLet us
beginHave we forgottenAll the lives that were givenAll the vows
that were takenSaying never again, never againNow for the first
timeThis could be the last timeIf peace is our visionLet us begin,
let us begin