La Colombe chords by Judy Collins
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Why
all these bugles crying
For squads of young men drilled
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To kill and to be killed
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Stood waiting by this train?
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Verse 2
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Why the orders loud and hoarse?
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Why the engine's groaning cough
As it strains to drag us off
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Into the holocaust?
Verse 3
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Why crowds who sing and cry
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And shout and fling us flowers
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And trade their right for ours
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To murder and to die?
Verse 4
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The dove has torn her wings
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so no more songs of love
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We are not here to sing
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We're here to kill the dove
Verse 5
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Why has this moment come
When childhood has to die
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When hope shrinks to a sigh
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And speech into a drum?
Verse 6
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Why are they pale and still
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Young boys trained overnight
Conscripts forced to fight
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And dressed in gray to kill?
Verse 7
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These rain clouds massing tight
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This train load battle bound
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This moving burial ground
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Sent thundering toward the night
Verse 8
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The dove has torn her wings
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so no more songs of love
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We are not here to sing
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We're here to kill the dove
Verse 9
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Why statues towering brave
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Above the last defeat
Old words and lies repeat
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Across the new made grave?
Verse 10
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Why the same still birth
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That victory always brought
These hours of glory bought
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By men with mouths of earth?
Verse 11
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Dead ash without a spark
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Where cities used to be
For guns probe every light
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And crush it in the dark
Verse 12
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The dove has torn her wings
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so no more songs of love
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We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove
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Verse 13
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And why your face undone
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With jagged lines of tears
That gave in those first years
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All peace I ever won?
Verse 14
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Your body in the gloom
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The platform fading back
Your shadow on the track
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A flower on a tomb
Verse 15
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And why these days ahead
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When I must let you cry
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And live prepared to die
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As if our love were dead?
Verse 16
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The dove has torn her wings so
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no more songs of love
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We are not here to sing
Outro 1
We're here to kill the dove
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La Colombe
Judy Collins
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