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La Colombe -- The Dove
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Joan Baez
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Why all these bugles cry
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These squads of young men drill
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To kill and to be killed
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Stood waiting by the train
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Why the orders loud and hoarse
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Why the engine's groaning cough
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As it strains to drag us all
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Into the holocaust
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Why crowds who sing and cry
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And shout and fling us flowers
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And trade their rights for ours
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To murder and to die
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CHORUS
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The dove has torn her wing(s?)
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So no more songs of love
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We are not here to sing
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We're here to kill the dove
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Why must this moment come
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When childhood has to die
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When hope shrinks to a sigh
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And speech into a drum
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Why are they pale and still
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Young boys trained over night
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Concripts payed to kill
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And dressed in gray to fight
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These rainclouds massing tight
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This train load battle bound
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This moving burial ground
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Goes thundering to the night
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CHORUS
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Why statues towering grave
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Above the last defeat
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Old words and lies repeat
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Across a new made grave
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And why the same still birds
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That victory always brought
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These hours of glory bought
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By men with mounds of earth
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Dead ash without a spark
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Where cities used to be
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Where guns probe every spark
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And crush it into dust
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CHORUS
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And while your face undone
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With jagged lines of tears
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That gave in those first years
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All the peace I'd ever want
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Your body in the gloom
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The platform fading back
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Your shadow on the track
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A flower upon a tomb
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And why these days ahead
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When I must let you cry
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And live prepared to die
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And to....
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