49 Bye-Byes/America's Children

Stephen Stills Forty nine reasons all in a line All of them good ones, all of them lies Drifting with my lady, we're oldest of friends Need a little work and there's fences to mend Steady girl, she was my world Till the drifter come, now she's gone I let that man play his hand I let them go, how was I to know I'm down on my knees, nobody left to please Now it's over, they left in the spring Her and the drifter, lookin' for beautiful things And I want you to clap your hands Awwww Come on and clap your hands everybody Yeah all right yeah all right yeah And a little bit louder now A little bit louder now And a little bit louder now Yes and a little bit louder now Oh, you know there's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear Yes there's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to be ware And we got to stop children, what's that sound Look what's going down Ahh look what's going down All right What a field day, what a heat Must have been a thousand people standing in the street Singing songs and carrying signs Come on, mostly say "hurray for our side" And we got to stop children, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down All right, what's going down ah yes Well it looks to me like there's a few politicians hanging around children Purpertating some kind of myth on us all all right Taking bout what a drag all the kids are yeah aahh Cause they got the guts to get out in the strees and tell the truth every day aahh yes Making it a little hot for them, you know all right But you know that we're all just out there proving to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew and Richard Dailey and all them other, well whatever you want to call them That America is still the home of the brave oh yes it is And you got to be brave children How many is it that they shot down already? Something like seventeen of us. But you know we gotta do it We gotta keep on keeping on Because if we don't do it nobody else is gonna But you know if we can't do it with a smile on our face You know if we can't love in our hearts then children we ain't got no right to do it at all Because it just means we ain't learned nothing yet We're supposed to be some kind of different Ahhh Whoa Whoa Whoa oh yes And I don't know if I want white America to remember or to forget That Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary Dig it ohh Dig it ooh right on Dig it yeah You know that paranoia it strikes deep Into your life it's going to creep And it starts when you're always afraid Step out of line the man comes He's going to shoot you down We've got to stop hey now what's that sound Yeah we've got to stop and what's that sound yes We've got to stop hey children what's that sound What's going down oh yeah