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The Time of Man

by Travis Edmonson (1961) [performed by Travis and Bud (Oliver Dashiell), The Limeliters, and others]


    Once there were trees and a river,
    Once there was grass where you stand;
    Once there were songs about rights instead of wrongs,
    Once was the time of man.

    We heard the drumming like thunder;
    We saw the cloud rise at dawn.
    Then came the rain, while we watched and prayed in vain;
    Then all was still, all was gone.

    Once there were trees and a river,
    Once there was grass where you stand;
    Once there were songs about rights instead of wrongs,
    Once was the time of man.

    Grass doesn't grow on the hillside;
    The trees shrink and die in the sun.
    There's no place to hide my little baby's eyes,
    From the damage that the dead have done.

    Once there were trees and a river,
    Once there was grass where you stand;
    Once there were songs about rights instead of wrongs,
    Once was the time of man.

    They didn't know in the old time,
    The earth and the seas were to share;
    They didn't know in the old times,
    Or care.

    Once there were trees and a river,
    Once there was grass where you stand;
    Once there were songs about rights instead of wrongs,
    Once was the time of man.





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