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Artist/Band: Joan Baez
Lyrics for Song: La Colombe -- The Dove
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - 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



[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

Conscripts 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



[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]


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Joan Baez


Joan Baez
"Other Songs - Joan Baez"


1. A Song For David
2. All The Weary Mothers Of The Earth
3. Altar Boy And The Thief
4. Amazing Grace
5. Black Is The Color
6. Casida Of The Lament
7. Coconuts
8. Copper Kettle
9. Day After Tomorrow
10. Famous Blue Raincoat
11. February
12. For All We Know
13. Freight Train
14. Gabriel And Me
15. Green, Green Grass Of Home
16. Heaven Help Us All
17. Honest Lullaby
18. I Wonder As I Wander
19. Imagine
20. In My Time Of Need
21. King's Highway
22. La Llorona
23. Lucifer's Eyes
24. Me And Bobby Mcgee
25. Mercy Bound
26. Michael
27. No Expectations
28. No Woman No Cry
29. Old Welsh Song
30. Please Come To Boston (Live)
31. Portland Town
32. Prison Trilogy
33. Put Your Hand In The Hand
34. Speaking Of Dreams
35. Steal Across The Border
36. Stewball
37. The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti, Part Two
38. Warriors Of The Sun
39. Weary Mothers (People's Union, No. 1)
40. What Have They Done To The Rain
41. Wildwood Flower
42. Elvis Presley Blues
43. Guantanamera
44. Rider Pass By
45. The Dangling Conversation
46. Isaac & Abraham
47. Kumbaya
48. La Colombe -- The Dove
49. All In Green Went My Love Riding
50. Annabel Lee
51. Autumn Leaves
52. Best Of Friends
53. Blue Sky
54. Caleb Meyer
55. Carry It On
56. Children Of Darkness
57. Coventry Carol
58. De Colores
59. Fennario
60. Finlandia
61. Help Me Make It Through The Night
62. I Dream Of Jeannie/danny Boy
63. I'm With You
64. John Riley
65. Last, Lonely And Wretched
66. Less Than The Song
67. Let It Be
68. Love Song To A Stranger
69. Mlk
70. Myths
71. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
72. No Nos Moveran
73. North
74. One Day At A Time
75. Only Heaven Knows (Ah, The Sad Wind Blows)
76. Pack Up Your Sorrows
77. Play Me Backwards
78. Rainbow Road
79. Reunion Hill
80. Strange Rivers
81. Sweeter For Me
82. Te Recuerdo Amanda
83. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
84. The Partisan
85. The Wild Mountain Thyme
86. Time Rag
87. Twelve Gates To The City
88. Welcome Me
89. Wings
90. All The Pretty Little Horses
91. Carrickfergus
92. Cherry Tree Carol
93. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
94. For Sasha
95. Hand To Mouth
96. Hickory Wind
97. I Saw The Vision Of Armies
98. If I Wrote You
99. Jackaroe
100. James & The Gang
101. Jerusalem
102. Long Black Veil
103. Minister Of War
104. Money For Floods
105. Motherland
106. Once I Had A Sweetheart
107. Paso Rio
108. Queen Of Hearts
109. Ranger's Command
110. Recently
111. Rock Salt And Nails
112. Satisfied Mind
113. Scarlet Tide
114. The Water Is Wide
115. Turquoise
116. Where Have All The Flowers Gone
117. Will The Circle Be Unbroken