All My Children Of The Sun chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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The navigator said to the engineer,
I think our radio's dead.
I can hear, but I can't send,
and there's bad weather ahead.
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The pilot said to the co -pilot,
our right engine's gone.
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But if we can make it over these mountains,
perhaps I can set her down.
All my children of the sun
Five hundred miles from nowhere
we belly -landed on a river
We bid a quick goodbye
to that ship of silver
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Twenty -five piled out the window,
twenty reached the shore
Turned to see our metal birds
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sink to rise no more
All my children of the sun
We found some floating logs,
we found some sharp stones
We cut some vines and made a raft,
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it was our only hope
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The navigator said he thought there was
a town somewhere downstream
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So now each man tried to do his best
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to paddle as a team
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All my children of the sun
All except one young guy
Who kept arguing with the navigator
He said he'd read about a waterfall
We would come to sooner or later
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At a river's bend he persuaded us
To bring our raft to beach
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But a  search party found the river smooth
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As far as I could reach
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All my children of the sun
Once again he persuaded us to stop
We cursed at the delay
Once again we found the river flowing
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on the same old way
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We  said, shut up your arguing,
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you give us all a pain
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Why don't you pitch in
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and do your part
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Be con structive for a change
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All my children of the sun
Still Egghead kept on talking
In that same long -winded way
We said if you won't paddle
Get the hell out of our way
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We told him to go sit
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Far back at the stern
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Then we strained to paddle harder
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And then the river made a turn
All my children of the sun
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One paddler heard the sound of tapping
What he saw when he did turn
Was egghead with a sharp stone
Cutting the vines that bound the stern
With a cry of rage the paddler
Leaped up to his feet
He swung his long pole
Knocked egghead into the deep
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But now the logs were splaying out
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The raft had come unbound
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Like mad we paddled for the shore
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Before we all would drown
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All my children of the sun
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A search party went out to find more vines
To tie the raft up tight
In twenty minutes they returned
Their faces pale with fright
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They said a quarter mile down river,
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we found a waterfall,
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it's over a hundred feet in height,
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we'd none of us lived at all,
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all my children of the sun.
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And that is why on the banks
of a far off wilderness stream,
which none of us,
none of us will ever see again,
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There stands a cross for someone
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Hardly older than a boy
Who we thought was only
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trying to destroy
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All my children of the sun.