The War Drags On

<br>From the album best of donovan ii<br><br>Let me tell you the story of a soldier named Dan.<br>Went out to fight the good fight in South Vietnam,<br>Went out to fight for peace, liberty and all,<br>Went out to fight for equality, hope, let`s go,<br>And the war drags on.<br>Found himself involved in a sea of blood and bones,<br>Millions without faces, without hope and without homes.<br>And the guns they grew louder as they made dust out of bones<br>That the flesh had long since left just as the people left their homes,<br>And the war drags on.<br>They`re just there to try and make the people free,<br>But the way that they`re doing it, it don`t seem like that to me.<br>Just more blood-letting and misery and tears<br>That this poor country`s known for the last twenty years,<br>And the war drags on.<br>Last night poor Dan had a nightmare it seems.<br>One kept occurring and re-occurring in his dream:<br>Cities full of people burn and scream and shoutin` loud<br>And right over head a great orange mushroom cloud.<br>And there`s no more war,<br>for there`s no more world,<br>And the tears come streaming down.<br>Yes, I lie crying on the ground.