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Joan Baez - Stones In The Road Lyrics

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  • originally by Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
  • When we were young, we pledged allegiance every morning of our lives
  • The classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eye
  • We learned about the world around us at our desks and at dinnertime
  • Reminded of the starving children, we cleaned our plates with guilty minds
  • And the stones in the road we played like marbles in the dust
  • Until a voice called for us to make our way back home
  • When I was ten, my father held me on his shoulders above the crowd
  • To see a train draped in mourning pass slowly through our town
  • His widow kneeled with all her children at the sacred burial ground
  • The TV glowed that long hot summer with all the cities burning down
  • And the stones in the road flew out from our bicycle tires
  • Worlds removed from all those fires as we raced each other home
  • And now we drink our coffee on the run and climb that ladder rung by rung
  • We are the daughters and the sons and here's the line that's missing...
  • The starving children have been replaced by souls out on the street
  • We give a dollar when we pass and hope our eyes don't meet
  • We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite
  • We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt
  • And the stones in the road leave a mark from whence they came
  • A thousand points of light or shame, baby, I don't know
  • Stones in the road

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