The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154347 Message #3643088
Posted By: Jim Carroll
18-Jul-14 - 07:08 AM
Thread Name: Biography: Pete Seeger vs. the Un-Americans
Subject: RE: Biography: Pete Seeger vs. the Un-Americans
In Contempt
(Aaron Kramer / Betty Sanders / ad. Len Graham) Build high build wide your prison walls That there be room enough for all Who hold you in contempt build wide That all the bad be locked inside
The birds who still insist on song The sunlit streams still running strong The flowers a-blazing every hue All are in contempt of you
When you have seized the gallant few Whose glory casts a shade on you How can you now go home with ease Jangling your heavy dungeon keys
The parents dreaming still of peace The playful children, the wild geese Who still must fly the mountains to All are in contempt of you
When you have seized both moon and sun And jailed the poems one by one And trapped each trouble-making breeze Then you must throw away your keys
So let us hope the day will come When man adores the rising sun Empty jails and free to do With no one in contempt of you