Draw The Line | Peter Alsop

Peter Alsop

Music for Children and Adults

Draw The Line

From the album Draw The Line Buy Now

 

Papers on the floor

Crayons circled round her

My daughter shapes

An intricate design

And she orders me to sit

Handling me the blue one

She says “Help me Daddy.

Help me draw the line!”

 

Cho: Draw the line, draw the line

We have to help each other draw the line

Draw the line, draw the line

We have to help each other draw the line!

 

The news is on T.V.

She’s asleep upon my lap

Tears jump down my cheeks

Like counting sheep, like counting crimes

And the worst crime of them all

Will be tomorrow morning

We’ll get up and go to work

Just like everything is fine!

 

We’ll ignore atomic waste, maybe it will go away

And the chemicals we eat don’t taste so bad

Our bombs will keep us safe, and our air

     smells really great

And the old folks in those homes have no reason

     to be sad!

Chorus

 

My girl could save the whales

If there’s any left to save

She’d wonder why the jails

Are overflowing with the poor

She’d see ninety-nine percent

Of our Senators are men

And that ego, greed, and money

Are the causes of our wars!

 

The moon shines like her face, I can’t look her

     in the eye

The owl screams “Whoo - leaves this legacy behind!?”

Somehow we’ve got to stop, and start a better world

Oh, help me child, please, help me draw the line!

Chorus

 

And the worst crime of them all,

Will be tomorrow morning

We’ll get up and go to work

Just like everything is fine!

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©Copyright 1980, Moose School Music (BMI)

On Draw The Line – www.peteralsop.com

 

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