Sang this a lot in the 60's

BALLAD OF A CRYSTAL MAN Lyrics

Walk along and talk along and live your lives quite freely
But leave our children with their toys of peppermint and candy.

For seagull I don't want your wings,
I don't want your freedom in a lie.

Your thoughts they are of harlequin, your speeches of quicksilver,
I read your faces like a poem, kaleidoscope of hate words.

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On the quilted battlefields of soldiers dazzling made of toy tin
The big bomb like a child's hand could sweep them dead just so
to win.

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As you fill your glasses with the wine of murdered negroes
Thinking not of beauty that spreads like morning sun-glow.

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I pray your dreams of vivid screams of children dying slowly
And as you polish up your guns your real self be reflecting.

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Vietnam, your latest game, you're playing with your blackest Queen
Damn your souls and curse your grins, I stand here with a fading dream.

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