Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)-John Denver

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[00:00.00]Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For) - John Denver (约翰·丹佛)
[00:10.44]I am the son of a grassland farmer
[00:15.10]Western oklahoma nineteen forty three
[00:20.88]I always felt grateful to live
[00:24.14]In the land of the free
[00:30.63]I gave up my father to South Korea
[00:35.70]The mind of my brother to Vietnam
[00:41.93]Now there's a banker who says
[00:44.83]I must give up my land
[00:50.84]There are four generations
[00:53.51]Of blood
[00:54.61]In this topsoil
[00:56.76]Four generations of love
[00:59.81]On this farm
[01:02.47]Before I give up
[01:04.62]I would gladly
[01:05.71]Give up my right arm
[01:12.70]What are we making weapons for
[01:17.21]Why keep on feeding the war machine
[01:22.14]We take it right out of the mouths
[01:25.17]Of our babies
[01:27.19]Take it away from the hands
[01:29.77]Of the poor
[01:31.40]Tell me what are
[01:32.56]We making weapons for
[01:43.77]I had a son and my son was a soldier
[01:48.33]He was so like my father
[01:50.43]He was so much like me
[01:54.56]To be a good comrade was the best
[01:57.87]That he dreamed he could be
[02:04.30]He gave up his future to revolution
[02:09.16]His life to a battle
[02:11.03]That just can't be won
[02:15.29]For this is not living to live
[02:18.62]At the point of a gun
[02:24.57]I remember the nine hundred days
[02:28.22]Of Leningrad
[02:30.10]The sound of the dying
[02:32.14]The cut of the cold
[02:36.02]I remember the moments I prayed
[02:39.85]I would never grow old
[02:46.29]What are we making weapons for
[02:51.03]Why keep on feeding the war machine
[02:55.64]We take it right out of the mouths
[02:58.51]Of our babies
[03:00.64]Take it away from the hands of the poor
[03:04.92]Tell me what are we making weapons for
[03:16.51]For the first time in my life
[03:19.25]I feel like a prisoner
[03:21.60]A slave to the ways of the powers
[03:24.80]That be
[03:27.51]And I fear for my children as
[03:30.17]I fear for the for the future I see
[03:36.74]Tell me how can it be
[03:39.25]We're still fighting each other
[03:42.48]What does it take
[03:43.74]For a people to learn
[03:47.75]If our song is not sung as a chorus
[03:51.88]We surely will burn
[03:58.28]What are we making weapons for
[04:03.04]Why keep on feeding the war machine
[04:07.54]We take it right out
[04:09.27]Of the mouths of our babies
[04:12.57]Take it away from the hands
[04:15.29]Of the poor
[04:16.82]Tell me what are
[04:18.05]We making weapons for
[04:23.27]Have we forgotten
[04:27.66]All the lives that were given
[04:32.77]All the vows that were taken
[04:37.59]Saying never again
[04:42.95]Now for the first time
[04:47.62]This could be the last time
[04:52.38]If peace is our vision
[04:57.69]Let us begin
[05:00.18]Have we forgotten
[05:04.33]All the lives that were given
[05:09.06]All the vows that were taken
[05:14.05]Saying never again never again
[05:19.17]Now for the first time
[05:24.31]This could be the last time
[05:29.65]If peace is our vision
[05:35.05]Let us begin let us begin