Henry's Songbook

Don't you put me down
I'm not to blame, you see
The whole wide world around
Mankind has longed to be free
But a thousand tongues are weaving lies
And a million eyes will not see
That men are killed and chained and whipped
And pass their lives in poverty

Everywhere it's war
And bombers roar in the sky
Our leaders don't seem to care
Say, Things will get better by and by
But the bloodstained earth is sown with graves
And no one hears the people's cry
For peace once more, for peace once more
A time when no one has to die