If I Were Free

Words & Music:

Jesse Winchester

 

CHORUS:

C         G                C C7

If I were free to speak my mind,

            F              G G7

I'll tell a tale to all mankind,

           C      C7            F

Of how the flowers do bloom and fade,

          C   G              C

Of how we fought, and how we paid.

 

C          G                 C C7

This weary world has had its fill,

            F            G G7

Of words of war on every hill.

             C C7              F

The time has come for peaceful days,

             C G             C

And peaceful men of peaceful ways.

 

CHORUS:

 

When all mankind has ceased to fight,

I'll raise my head in thanks each night,

For this return, and all it means,

For golden days and peaceful dreams.

 

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