Lyr Add: FEED THE CHILDREN

Subject: FEED THE CHILDREN
From: wildlone
Date: 29 Dec 00 - 05:22 PM

Feed The Children
Eric Bogle

Have you seen the Children who disturb our paradise
Staring from the TV with empty dying eyes
No trace of anger at the betrayal of the trust
That left them to die like starving dogs In the famines bitter dust

Chorus
But if you close your ears you wont hear them crying
If you close your eyes you wont see them dying
And if you close your mind your heart won't condem
If the futures born with every birth
Tell me how much is a childs life worth
You must feed the children of the earth
or the future dies with them

And have you seen the madmen who strut the world with staves
Threatening our destruction as they prance and preen and rave
Rattleing little Sabres as humanity holds its breath
Feeding on fear and bigotry as the children starve to death

Chorus

rpt Chorus

Found on the CD I Wrote This Wee Song, Eric Bogle Live
CDTRAX 082D
A 2 CD rec in 1994

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: FEED THE CHILDREN
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Dec 00 - 05:24 PM

Beautiful, painful, and true. Thank you, wildlone.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: FEED THE CHILDREN
From: wildlone
Date: 29 Dec 00 - 06:20 PM

Animaterra,
The credit is all Erics, I will try to write down more of his work when I can.
dave