(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

And his he




» 1959
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» 25th Floor / High On Rebellion
» About A Boy
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» Aint It Strange
» As the Night Goes By
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» Beneath The Southern Cross
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» Boy Cried Wolf
» Break It Up
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» China Bird
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» Death Singing
» Distant Fingers
» Don't Say Nothing
» Dont Say Nothing
» Dream Of Life
» E-Bow The Letter
» Easter
» Elegie
» Farewell
» Farewell Reel
» Fire Of Unknown Origin
» Fireflies
» Frederick
» Free Money
» Gandhi
» Ghost Dance
» Glitter In Their Eyes
» Gloria
» Godspeed
» Going Under
» GONE AGAIN
» Gone Pie
» Grateful
» Gung Ho
» Hey Joe
» Hey Joe (version)
» High On Rebellion
» Hymn
» It Takes Time
» Jubilee
» Kimberly
» Land
» Last Call
» Letter From Death Row
» Libbie's Song
» Libbies Song
» Lo And Beholden
» Lo Beholden
» Look At What Love Has Done
» Looking for You
» Looking For You (I Was)
» Memento Mori
» Memorial Tribute
» Mother Rose
» My Blakean Year
» My Madrigal
» New Party
» No Mistakes
» Notes To The Future
» One Voice
» Paths That Cross
» Peaceable Kingdom
» People Have The Power
» Persuasion
» Piss Factory
» Pissing In A River
» Poppies
» Privilege
» Privilege (Set Me Free)
» Pumping
» Pumping (My Heart)
» Radio Baghdad
» Radio Ethiopia / Abyssinia
» Radio Ethiopia/Abyssinia
» Radio EthiopiaAbyssinia
» Ravens
» Redondo Beach
» Revenge
» Rock 'n' Roll Nigger
» Rock N Roll Nigger
» RockNRoll Nigger
» Seven Ways Of Going
» So You Wanna Be
» So You Want to Be
» So You Want To Be (A Rock'n'Roll Star)
» Somalia
» Sometimes Love Just Aint Enough
» Space Monkey
» Spell
» Strange Messengers
» Stride Of The Mind
» Summer Cannibals
» The Jackson Song
» The Wicked Messenger
» Till Victory
» Trampin
» Trampin'
» Trespassers
» Trespasses
» Up There Down There
» Upright Come
» Waiting Underground
» Wave
» We Three
» We Three Kings
» When Doves Cry
» Where Duty Calls
» Whirl Away
» wild leaves
» Wing

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