FLOWERS OF PEACE

by Pete Seeger



Oh the summertime is coming, and the leaves are sweet returning

But those flowers of peace, it's for them I'm really yearning



Will they bloom, ever bloom?

Will they bloom in the springtime?

Oh you flowers of peace

When the world should be ringtime(?)

Will ye bloom, ever bloom?



I built my love a bower by a clear, crystal river

But the thing her heart desires is a thing I cannot give her



Oh providence smiled impassive, while I fell on bended knee

Said, the lives of you empires are no more than swarms of bees



If you and I would see those flowers, get up and rouse your

neighbors

When first the seed I'd planted, it takes long and careful labor



If you and I would see those flowers, go out and till the fertile

soil

It will take more than prayers, it takes hard and sweaty toil





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Obviously to Wild Mountain Thyme



@political @plant

see also BRAES

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