Time To Think

Kingston Trio Time To Think Lyrics
1.Song For A Friend

Lyricist:John Stewart

When you sit and wonder
Why things have gone so wrong
And you wish someone would tell us
Where our friend has gone

Look then to the hills
When there's courage in the wind
And in the face of freedom
And those who look to him

And search within the heart
Of every young man with a song
Then I think we'll know
Where our friend has gone

Summer takes the winter
As the good years take the pain
There'll be laughter in the land again
But hearts won't be the same

And I know I'll remember
When a chill wind takes the sky
And speak of the years he gave us hope
For they will never die

And as we gaze at brave young men
When yesterdays grow long
Then I think we'll know
Where our friend has gone

When you sit and wonder
Why things have gone so wrong
It's then that we'll remember
Where our friend has gone


2.If You Don't Look Around

Lyricist:John Stewart

They told me doncha go down to that city
Don't you go down to that city, I say
For there's trouble there for sure and it's no concern of yours
And it's all I have to hear them people say

If you don't look around
You won't see my a-goin', see me a-goin' that way
If you don't look around
You'll have no way of knowin', I don't think you even know what
I say

And I saw children just walkin' 'long and singin'
When a voice from behind me rang through
Then I saw an ugly man with a mad dog in his hand
He said, 'Stand right there, I'll turn him loose on you'

If you don't look around
You won't see my a-goin', see me a-goin' that way
If you don't look around
You'll have no way of knowin', I don't think you even know what
I say

So don't tell me there ain't no time for singin'
'Cause I don't need no empty words from you
If they're sayin', who ain't free then they're sayin' it right
to me
So, go back home, I'll wake you when we're through

If you don't look around
You won't see my a-goin', see me a-goin' that way
If you don't look around
You'll have no way of knowin', I don't think you even know what
I say


3.Coal Tattoo

Lyricist:Billy Wheeler

Travelin' down that coal town road
Listenin' to my rubber tires whine
Goodbye to Buckeye and white Sycamore
I'm leavin' you behind

I've been coal miner all of my life
Layin' down track in the hole
Gotta back like an ironwood, bit by the wind
Blood veins blue as the coal
Blood veins blue as the coal

Somebody said, 'That's a strange tattoo
You have on the side of your head'
I said, 'That's the blueprint left by the coal
A little more and I'd been dead'

Well, I love the rumble and I love the dark
I love the cool of the Slade
And it's on down the new road, lookin' for a job
This travelin' nook in my head

I stood for the union and walked in the line
And fought against the company
I stood for the U. M. W. of A
Now, who's gonna stand for me?

I've got no house and I got no job
Just got a worried soul
And a blue tattoo on the side of my head
Left by the number nine coal
Left by the number nine coal.

Some day when I'm dead and gone
To Heaven, the land of my dreams
I won't have to worry on losin' my job
On bad times and big machines

I ain't gonna pay my money away
On dues or hospital plans
I'm gonna pick coal where the blue Heavens roll
And sing with the Angel Band

I ain't gonna pay my money away
On dues or hospital plans
I'm gonna pick coal where the blue Heavens roll
And sing with the Angel Band


4.Hobo's Lullaby

Lyricist:Goebel Reeves

Go to sleep, you weary hobo
Watch the towns go drifting by
Can't you hear the rails a singin'?
That's the hobo's lullaby

Don't you worry 'bout tomorrow
Let tomorrows come and go
Tonight you've got a nice, warm boxcar
Free from all the wind and snow

Go to sleep, you weary hobo
Watch the towns go drifting by
Can't you hear the rails a singin'?
That's the hobo's lullaby

I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to heaven
There'll be no policemen there

Go to sleep, you weary hobo
Watch the towns go drifting by
Can't you hear the rails a singin'?
That's the hobo's lullaby

Can't you hear the rails a singin', ohh
That's the hobo's lullaby


5.Ally Ally Oxen Free

Lyricist:Tom Drake, Rod Mc Kuen, S Yates

Time to let the rain fall without the help of man
Time to let the trees grow tall, now, if they only can
Time to let our children, live in a land that's free
Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free
(Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free)

Time to blow the smoke away, look at the sky again
Time to let our friends know we'd like to begin again
Time to send a message across the land and sea
Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free
(Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free)

Strong and weak, mild and meek, no more hide and seek

Time to see the fairness of a children's game
Time for men to stop and learn to do the same
Time to make our minds up if the world at last will be
Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free
(Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free)

Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free
(Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free)
Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free
(Ally, ally, ally, ally, oxen free)


6.Seasons In The Sun

Lyricist:Jacques Brel, Rod Mckuen

Adieu Emile, my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and A B Cs
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees

Adieu Emile, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the Spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there

We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills we would climb
Were just seasons out of time

Adieu Papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along

Adieu Papa, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the Spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them, I'll be there

We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons have all gone

Adieu Francoise, my trusted wife
Without you I'd have had a lonely life
You cheated lots of times but then
I forgave you in the end
Though your lover was my friend

Adieu Francoise, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
With your lovers everywhere
Just be careful, I'll be there

All our lives we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach

Adieu Emile
Adieu Papa
Adieu Francoise

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
All our lives, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach


7.Turn Around

Lyricist:Harry Belafonte, Alan Green, Malvina Reynolds

Where are you going
My little one, little one?
Where are you going
My baby, my own?

Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

Where are you going
My little one, little one?
Little dirndls and petticoats
Where have you gone?

Turn around and you're tiny
Turn around and you're grown
Turn around and you're a your wife
With babes of your own

Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young wife
With babes of your own

Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young wife
With babes of your own


8.Patriot Game

Come all you young rebels and list while we sing for the love of
one's country is a terrible thing.
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame and it makes us all
part of the patriot game.

My name is O'Hannon and I've just gone sixteen. My home is in
Monaghan where I was weaned.
I've learned all my life cruel England's to blame and so I'm a
part of the patriot game.

It's barely two years since they wandered away and it was with
the local battalion of the bold IRA
For they'd read of our heroes and they wanted the same to play
their own part in the patriot game.

This Ireland of ours has for long been half-free. Six counties
are under John Bull's tyranny.
So, we gave up our boyhood to drill and to train and play our
own part in the patriot game.

And now as I lie here, my body all holes, I think of those
traitors who bargained in souls.
I wish that my rifle had given the same to those Quislings who
sold out the patriot game.


9.These Sven Men

He's gone away for to stay a little while but he's comin' back
if he goes ten thousand miles.

Who are these seven men whose path leads them so far and shake
our minds to wonder who they are?
They scout the new frontier to find the surest way and they look
to us for they have shown the way.

They're gone away for to stay a little while but they're comin'
back if they go ten thousand miles.

What is there left to look to that yet has not been done. What
West is there if all the Wests are won?
Look not back o'er your shoulder but high above your head. These
seven men have shown the way.
These seven men have said,

'We've gone away for to stay a little while but we're comin'
back if we go ten thousand miles. We're gone, gone away.'


10.Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning.
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps.
They're flying them back to the Mexico border
To take all their money to wade back again.

Goodbye to my one, farewell Roselita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane.
All they will call you is just deportee.

My father's own father, he waded that river.
They took all the money he made in his life.
It's six hundred miles to the Mexican border
And they chased him like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves.

The airplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A great ball of fire that shook all the hills.
Who are these friends who are falling like dry leaves?
The radio said, 'They're just deportees.'

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can raise our good crops?
To fall like dry leaves and rot on our topsoil
And be known by no name except deportee.


11.No One To Talk My Toubles To


I remember when you were lookin' up at me as though I was the
only one you'd ever want to see.


Now I'm getting' older and I think of what I've done. It hurts
to think of good times, so I'll dream of days to come.


Somewhere, I know, there's a girl I'd like to see. She may not
be all I'd like her to be.
Someone to talk my troubles to. Someone to talk my troubles to.

Sometimes, I don't know what to say. Sometimes I don't know what
to do.
Someone to talk my troubles to. Someone to talk my troubles to.


12.Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream

Last night I had the strangest dream I never dreamed before. I
dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.

I dreamed I saw a mighty room and the room was filled with men
And the papers they were signing said they'd never fight again
And when the papers were all signed and a million copies made,
They all joined hands and bowed their heads and grateful prayers
were raised
And the people in the streets below were dancing 'round and
'round
And guns and swords and uniforms were scattered on the ground.