Lyrics




Why all these bugles crying
For squads of young men drilled
To kill and to be killed
Stood waiting by this train?
Why the orders loud and hoarse?
Why the engine's groaning cough
As it strains to drag us off
Into the holocaust?
Why crowds who sing and cry
And shout and fling us flowers
And trade their right for ours
To murder and to die?
The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love
We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove
Why has 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 overnight
Conscripts forced to fight
And dressed in gray to kill?
These rain clouds massing tight
This train load battle bound
This moving burial ground
Sent thundering toward the night
The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love
We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove
Why statues towering brave
Above the last defeat
Old words and lies repeat
Across the new made grave?
Why the same still birth
That victory always brought
These hours of glory bought
By men with mouths of earth?
Dead ash without a spark
Where cities used to be
For guns probe every light
And crush it in the dark
The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love
We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove
And why your face undone
With jagged lines of tears
That gave in those first years
All peace I ever won?
Your body in the gloom
The platform fading back
Your shadow on the track
A flower on a tomb
And why these days ahead
When I must let you cry
And live prepared to die
As if our love were dead?
The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love
We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove



Writer(s): Jacques Brel, Alasdair Clayre


Judy Collins - The 60's Collection
Album The 60's Collection
date of release
10-07-2015

1   The Prickilie Bush
2   Wild Mountain Thyme
3   Tim Evans
4   Sailor's Life
5   Bold Fenian Men
6   Wars of Germany
7   O Daddy Be Gay - Title
8   I Know Where I'm Going
9   John Riley
10   Pretty Saro
11   The Rising of the Moon
12   Maid of Constant Sorrow
13   Golden Apples of the Sun
14   Bonnie Ship the Diamond
15   Twelve Gates to the City
16   Christ Child Lullaby
17   Great Selchie of Shule Skerry
18   Tell Me Who I'll Marry
19   Fannerio
20   Crow on the Cradle
21   Lark in the Morning
22   Sing Hallelujah
23   Shule Aroon
24   Little Brown Dog
25   Anathea
26   The Bells of Rhymney
27   Turn, Turn, Turn! / To Everything There Is a Season
28   Farewell
29   Bullgine Run
30   Hey Nelly Nelly
31   Ten O'Clock All Is Well
32   The Dove
33   Masters of War
34   In the Hills of Shiloh
35   Deportee/ Plane Wreck At Los Gatos
36   Settle Down
37   Come Away Melinda
38   Winter Sky
39   The Last Thing On My Mind
40   Tear Down The Walls
41   Bonnie Boy Is Young
42   Me & My Uncle
43   Wild Rippling Water
44   The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
45   My Rambln' Boy
46   Red-Winged Blackbird
47   Coal Tattoo
48   Cruel Mother
49   Bottle Of Wine
50   Medgar Evers Lullaby
51   Pack Up Your Sorrows
52   Tomorrow Is A Long Time
53   Early Morning Rain
54   Daddy You've Been On My Mind
55   Mr. Tambourine Man
56   The Coming Of The Roads
57   Thirsty Boots
58   Lord Gregory
59   Carry It On
60   It Isn't Nice
61   So Early, Early In The Spring
62   In The Heat Of The Summer
63   Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
64   Hard Lovin' Loser
65   Pirate Jenny
66   Suzanne
67   La Colombe
68   Marat / Sade
69   I Think It's Going to Rain Today
70   Sunny Goodge Street
71   Liverpool Lullaby
72   Dress Rehearsal Rag
73   In My LIfe
74   A Ballata of Francesco Landini (ca. 1335-1397) Lasso! Di Donna
75   Priests
76   Michael from Mountains
77   Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
78   Sisters of Mercy
79   Sky Fell
80   Since You Asked
81   La Chanson Des Vieux Amants (The Song of Old Lovers)
82   Both Sides Now
83   Albatross
84   Hello, Hooray
85   Story Of Isaac
86   Poor Immigrant
87   Pretty Polly
88   Someday Soon
89   Who Knows Where the Times Goes
90   My Father
91   First Boy I Loved
92   Bird On The Wire




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