Save The Country

Album: Portrait (1970)
Charted: 27
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  • Come on, people, come on, children
    Come on down to the glory river.
    Gonna wash you up, and wash you down,
    Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down.
    I got fury in my soul,fury's gonna take me to the glory goal
    In my mind I can't study war no more.
    Save the people, save the children, save the country now

    Come on, people come on, children
    Come on down to the glory river
    Gonna wash you up and wash you down
    Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down

    Come on people! Sons and mothers
    Keep the dream of the two young brothers
    Gonna take that dream and ride that dove

    We could build the dream with love, I know,
    We could build the dream with love, I know,
    We could build a dream with love, children,
    We could build the dream with love, oh people,
    We could build the dream with love, I know,
    We could build the dream with love.

    Come on, people! Come on, children!
    There's a king at the glory river

    And the precious king, he loved the people to sing;
    Babes in the blinkin' sun sang
    "We Shall Overcome".

    Writer/s: LAURA NYRO
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Patricia from MinneapolisAnother band that recorded "Save the Country" in 68 or 69 was the Sugar Shop. That's the band we identified with the most. I don't ever remember hearing the Laura Nyro versions.
  • Mavis from Upper MidwestThis song was a rallying cry in 1968, one that struck me as relevant in 2017 and beyond. But 1968 is far behind us.
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