Lay Down Your Swords, Boys Lyrics - 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor - Shawn Mullins

"Lay Down Your Swords, Boys" 

Well lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns 

A new days a comin first sight of the sun Itll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love While sweet baby Jesus rides the wing of a dove 

Now our color filled country is a giant strip mall Its a joke in the mens room misspelled on the stall 

But when its all over, aint no colors anyway Like an old silent movie, only black, white and gray 

Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns A new days a comin first sight of the sun 

Itll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove 

Well the bad guys are gone, boys, 

we run most of them down 

when we flattened the hillsides 

and we pummeled the ground 

And speaking on bombs, boys, 

you'd better believe 

That its better to give boys, 

than it is to receive 

Lay down your swords, boys, 

lay down your guns 

A new days a comin first sight of the sun 

Itll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love 

While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove 

Now Old Glorys still flyin, just like before 

And your kids aint believin in nothin no more 

And you cant really blame em, 

same shit we were fed 

From the pages of schoolbooks 

to the Bibles we read 

Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns 

A new days a comin first sight of the sun 

And itll shine like a beacon 

On whoever shall love 

While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove