Whip,

Thanks--glad I helped but it was by accident; I'd forgotten your original song quest! Art (Here's another one.)

ASKING SONG (by Tony Townsend)
Tony Townsend played a club called the Fickle Pickel (Chicago) in the mid 60s---I bought his LP to get this song. Never saw him again...

Asking song we sing of him,
Who joined in battle tyrants grim,
Strong and brave, young and proud,
Shot to death in a friendly crowd,
Gone forever from this earth,
Soul of goodness, heart of worth,
What for us is left behind?
A touch of death for all mankind.

Who determines and who is to know,
Just who's to stay and who's to go?
Who is master, who is he,
Who determines when it's time to sleep?
Why should he who gave so much,
Bear the devil's fatal touch?
Why on earth does evil reign,
When promises become a little game?

How to honor him we knew
Whom one of us in anger slew,
Rize again and vengence fling,
Or struggle on the distant peace to bring,
Down the river now we flow,
Now reluctant but on we go,
We met a man somewhere upstream,
Who gave a hand and left a dream.

Art Thieme