Stones In The Road Lyrics - Singles - Baez Joan

(originally by Mary-Chapin Carpenter) 

When we were young, we pledged allegiance every morning of our lives 

The classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eye 

We learned about the world around us at our desks and at dinnertime 

Reminded of the starving children, we cleaned our plates with guilty minds 

And the stones in the road we played like marbles in the dust 

Until a voice called for us to make our way back home 

When I was ten, my father held me on his shoulders above the crowd 

To see a train draped in mourning pass slowly through our town 

His widow kneeled with all her children at the sacred burial ground 

The TV glowed that long hot summer with all the cities burning down 

And the stones in the road flew out from our bicycle tires 

Worlds removed from all those fires as we raced each other home 

And now we drink our coffee on the run and climb that ladder rung by rung 

We are the daughters and the sons and here's the line that's missing... 

The starving children have been replaced by souls out on the street 

We give a dollar when we pass and hope our eyes don't meet 

We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite 

We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt 

And the stones in the road leave a mark from whence they came 

A thousand points of light or shame, baby, I don't know 

Stones in the road...