La Colombe -- The Dove Lyrics - Joan Baez

Why all these bugles cry 

These squads of young men drill 

To kill and to be killed 

Stood waiting by the train 

Why the orders loud and hoarse 

Why the engine's groaning cough 

As it strains to drag us all 

Into the holocaust 

Why crowds who sing and cry 

And shout and fling us flowers 

And trade their rights for ours 

To murder and to die 

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CHORUS 

The dove has torn her wing(s?) 

So no more songs of love 

We are not here to sing 

We're here to kill the dove 

Why must this moment come 

When childhood has to die 

When hope shrinks to a sigh 

And speech into a drum 

Why are they pale and still 

Young boys trained over night 

Concripts payed to kill 

And dressed in gray to fight 

These rainclouds massing tight 

This train load battle bound 

This moving burial ground 

Goes thundering to the night 

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CHORUS 

Why statues towering grave 

Above the last defeat 

Old words and lies repeat 

Across a new made grave 

And why the same still birds 

That victory always brought 

These hours of glory bought 

By men with mounds of earth 

Dead ash without a spark 

Where cities used to be 

Where guns probe every spark 

And crush it into dust 

CHORUS 

And while your face undone 

With jagged lines of tears 

That gave in those first years 

All the peace I'd ever want 

Your body in the gloom 

The platform fading back 

Your shadow on the track 

A flower upon a tomb 

And why these days ahead 

When I must let you cry 

And live prepared to die 

And to... 

Chorus