Flowers Of Peace chords by Pete Seeger, Anne Hills

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Ooooo...
Oh the summer time is coming
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And the leaves are sweet returning
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But those flowers of peace
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It's for them I'm really yearning
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Will they bloom, ever bloom?
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Will they bloom in the springtime,
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O you flowers of peace?
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When the world should be in ring time,
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Will you bloom, ever bloom?
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I build my love a bower by
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a crystal flowing river
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But the thing her heart desires
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is  a thing I cannot give her
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Will they bloom, ever bloom?
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Will they bloom in the springtime?
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Oh, you flowers of peace
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When the world should be in ring time
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Will you bloom, ever bloom?
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Oh, Providence, mild, impassive,
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When I fell on bended knees,
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Said the lives of your empires
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Are no more than swarms of bees
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If you and I  would see those flowers,
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get up and rouse your neighbor.
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And when first the seed is planted
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Then it takes long and careful labor
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Then they'll bloom, ever bloom
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Then you'll bloom in the springtime
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O you flowers of peace,
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and the world will be in ring time,
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then you'll bloom, ever bloom.
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If you and I would see those flowers
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Grow out until the fertile soil
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It will take more than prayers
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For it takes heart and sweaty toil
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Then you'll bloom, ever bloom
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Then you'll bloom in the springtime
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Oh you flowers of peace
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And the world will be in ring time
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than you'll bloom, ever bloom.