John Denver
- The Box Lyrics
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Once upon a time, in the land of hush-a-bye, around about the wondrous days of yore, they came across a kind of box, bound up with chains and locked with locks and labeled "Kindly do not touch it's war."
A decree was issued round about, and all with a flourish and a shout and a gaily-colored mascot tripping lightly on before. Don't fiddle with this deadly box, or break the chains, or pick the locks. And please don't ever play about with war.
Well, the children understood. Children happen to be good and they were just as good around the time of yore. They didn't try to pick the locks or break into that deadly box. They never tried to play about with war. Mommies didn't either, sisters, aunts, grannies neither. They were quiet, and sweet, and pretty in those wondrous days of yore. Well, very much the same as now, not the ones to blame somehow for opening up that deadly box of war.
But someone did. Someone battered in the lid and spilled the insides out across the floor. A sort of bouncy, bumpy ball made up of guns and flags and all the tears, and horror, and death that comes with war. It bounced right out and went bashing all about, bumping into everything in store. And what was sad and most unfair was that it didn't really seem to care much who it bumped, or why, or what, or for.
It bumped the children mainly. And I'll tell you this quite plainly, it bumps them every day and more, and more, and leaves them dead, and burned, and dying, thousands of them sick and crying. Cause when it bumps, it's really very sore.
Now there's a way to stop the ball. It isn't difficult at all. All it takes is wisdom, and I'm absolutely sure that we can get it back into the box, and bind the chains, and lock the locks. But no one seems to want to save the children anymore.
Well, that's the way it all appears, cause it's been bouncing round for years and years. In spite of all the wisdom ‘wiz since those wondrous days of yore and the time they came across the box, bound up with chains and locked with locks, and labeled "Kindly do not touch, it's war."
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- All of my memories
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- Around & around
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- Bread & roses
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- Circus
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- Come and let me look into your eyes
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- Cowboyâ??s Delight
- Daddy, Whatâ??s A Train?
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- Daydreams
- Down by the old mill stream
- Downhill Stuff
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- Eagles & horses
- Earth day every day
- Easy, On Easy Street
- El paso
- Elipse
- Falling leaves
- Farewell andromeda
- Fill up my senses
- Fire & rain
- Fishin' gone
- Flight
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- For baby (for bobby)
- Forest Lawn
- Fugacity
- Gimme Your Love
- Going camping
- Got My Heart Set On You
- Hey old pal
- Hey There, Mr. Lonely Heart
- High, wide & handsome
- Holy night
- Home on the range
- How mountain girls can love
- I wish i could have been there
- I wish i knew how it would feel to be free
- I'm kissing you goodbye
- I’d rather be a cowboy
- Im Sorry Jd
- It Makes Me Giggle
- It's in every one of us
- Jessie Paints A Picture
- Jimmy newman
- Johnny B. Goode
- Joseph and joe
- Kissing you goodbye
- Lady
- Late Night Radio
- Late nite radio
- Let us begin
- Love of the common people
- Me and my uncle
- Merry Christmas Little Zachary
- Moreton Bay
- My heart
- My old man
- No one like you
- Noel: christmas eve, 1913
- Nothing But A Breeze
- On the atchison, topeka & the sante fe
- On the wings of an eagle
- Paradise
- Peace carol
- Poems, prayers & promises
- Polka dots & moonbeams
- Postcard from paris (i wish you were here)
- Postcards from paris
- Postcards from paris (wish you were here)
- Prisoners
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- Readjustment blues
- Rhymes & reasons
- Rocky mountain suite
- Rudolph the red nose reindeer
- San Antonio Rose
- Saturday night in toledo, ohio
- Season suite :
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- She'll be comin' 'round the mountain
- Shipmates & cheyenne
- Singing skies & dancing waters
- Sixty second song for a bank
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- Somethinâ?? About
- Spring
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- Sweet Melinda
- Take me to tomorrow
- That's the way it's gonna be
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- The first noël
- The gold & beyond
- The twelve days of christmas
- The Wandering Soul
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- Thought Of You
- Time In A Bottle
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- Tools
- Tradewinds
- We wish you a merry christmas
- Whalebones & crosses
- Whalebones and crosses
- When i’m sixty - four
- When the river meets the sea
- Whiskey Basin Blues
- Whose Garden Was This?
- Wild flowers in a mason jar
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- Winter
- Wish you were here
- Wish you were here (postcard du paris)
- Wooden Indian
- Wrangell mountain song
- Yellowstone, coming home
- You dun stomped on my heart
- You fill up my senses
- You say the battle is over
- You’re still the one for me
- The Christmas Wish
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