Song Lyrics Patti Smith - Gung Ho    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> P>> Patti Smith Singer Lyrics [Patti Smith other resources]>> Gung Ho Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Patti Smith Music Title/Track: Gung Ho Theme ID: 4917 Album: N/A (SmithRayKayeShanahanDaugherty) On a field of red one gold star Raised above his head Raised above his head He was not like any other He was just like any other And the song they bled Was a hymn to him Awake my little one The seed of revolution Sewn in the sleeve Of cloth humbly worn Where others are adorned Above the northern plain The great birds fly With great wings Over the paddy fields And the people kneel And the men they toil Yet not for their own And the children are hungry And the wheel groans There before a grass hut A young boy stood His mother lay dead His sisters cried for bread And within his young heart The seed of revolution sewn In cloth humbly worn While others are adorned And he grew into a man Not like any other Just like any other One small man A beard the color of rice A face the color of tea Who shared the misery Of other men in chains With shackles on his feet Escaped the guillotine Who fought against Colonialism imperialism Who remained awake While others slept Who penned like Jefferson Let independence ring And the cart of justice turns Slow and bitterly And the people were crying Plant that seed that seed And they crawled on their bellies Beneath the giant beast And filled the carts with bodies Where once had been their crops And the great birds swarm Spread their wings overhead And his mother dead And the typhoons and the rain The jungles in flames And the orange sun None could be more beautiful Than Vietnam Nothing was more beautiful Than Vietnam And his he Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Libbies Song, Libbies Song, Lo And Beholden, Lo Beholden, Look At What Love Has Done, Looking for You, Looking for You (I Was), Memento Mori, Memorial Tribute, Mother Rose, My Blakean Year, My Madrigal, New Party, No Mistakes, Notes To The Future, One Voice, Paths That Cross, Peaceable Kingdom, People Have the Power, Persuasion, Piss Factory, Pissing In A River, Poppies, Privilege, Privilege (Set Me Free), Pumping, Pumping (My Heart), Radio Baghdad, Radio Ethiopia / Abyssinia, Radio Ethiopia/Abyssinia, Radio EthiopiaAbyssinia, Ravens, Redondo Beach, Revenge, Rock n Roll Nigger, Rock N Roll Nigger, RockNRoll Nigger, Seven Ways Of Going, So You Wanna Be, So You Want to Be, So You Want To Be (A RocknRoll Star), Somalia, Sometimes Love Just Aint Enough, Space Monkey, Spell, Strange Messengers, Stride Of The Mind, Summer Cannibals, The Jackson Song, The Wicked Messenger, Other Patti Smith song Lyrics 1959 Lyrics 25th Floor Lyrics 25th Floor ( High On Rebellion) Lyrics 25th Floor (& High On Rebellion) Lyrics 25th Floor / High On Rebellion Lyrics About A Boy Lyrics Aint It Strange Lyrics Aint It Strange Lyrics As the Night Goes By Lyrics Ask The Angels Lyrics Babelogue Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Patti Smith Group Lyrics Patti Smyth & Don Henley Lyrics Patti Symth Lyrics Patty Lyrics Patty Duke Lyrics Griffin Patty Lyrics Patty Griffin Lyrics Patty Loveless Lyrics Patty Loveless F/ Jon Randall Lyrics Patty Loveless F/ Rebecca Lynn Howard Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy