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Lyrics for Gung Ho by PATTI SMITH:
| | | Artist: | PATTI SMITH |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Gung Ho | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 74 | | | | Lyrics: | (SmithRayKayeShanahanDaugherty)
On a field of red one gold star
Raised above his
head
Raised above his head
He was not like any other
He was just like any other
And
the song they bled
Was a hymn to him
Awake my little one
The seed of
revolution
Sewn in the sleeve
Of cloth humbly worn
Where others are
adorned
Above the northern plain
The great birds fly
With great wings
Over the
paddy fields
And the people kneel
And the men they toil
Yet not for their own
And
the children are hungry
And the wheel groans
There before a grass hut
A young boy
stood
His mother lay dead
His sisters cried for bread
And within his young heart
The
seed of revolution sewn
In cloth humbly worn
While others are adorned
And he grew
into a man
Not like any other
Just like any other
One small man
A beard the color of
rice
A face the color of tea
Who shared the misery
Of other men in chains
With
shackles on his feet
Escaped the guillotine
Who fought against
Colonialism
imperialism
Who remained awake
While others slept
Who penned like Jefferson
Let
independence ring
And the cart of justice turns
Slow and bitterly
And the people were
crying
Plant that seed that seed
And they crawled on their bellies
Beneath the giant
beast
And filled the carts with bodies
Where once had been their crops
And the
great birds swarm
Spread their wings overhead
And his mother dead
And the typhoons and
the rain
The jungles in flames
And the orange sun
None could be more beautiful
Than
Vietnam
Nothing was more beautiful
Than Vietnam
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