"Once upon a
time in the land of hush-a-bye,
around about
the wondrous days of yore,
They came across
a sort of box
Bound up with
chains and locked with locks
And labeled,
'Kindly do not touch, it's war.'
A decree was
issued 'round about --
All with a
flourish and a shout
And a gaily
coloured mascot
Tripping lightly
on before --
'Don't fiddle
with that deadly box
or break the
chains or pick the locks
And please
don't ever mess about with war.'
Well the children
understood,
Children happen
to be good
And were just
as good around the time of yore.
They didn't
try to pick the locks
Or break into
that deadly box
And never tried
to play about with war.
Mommies didn't
either
Sisters, Aunts
nor Grannies neither
'Cos they were
quiet and sweet and pretty
In those wondrous
days of yore,
Well very much
the same as now
And not the
ones to blame somehow
For opening
up that deadly box of war,
But someone
did...
Someone battered
in the lid
And spilled
the insides out across the floor,
A sort of bouncy
bumpy ball
made up of
flags and guns and all
The tears and
the horror and the death
That goes with
war.
It bounced right
out
And went bashing
all about
And bumping
into everything in store
And what is
sad and most unfair
was that it
didn't really seem to care
Much who it
bumped, or why,
Or what, or
for.
It bumped the
children mainly
And I'll tell
you this quite plainly,
It bumps them
everyday and more and more
And leaves
them dead and burned and dying
Thousands of
them sick and crying,
'Cos when it
bumps it's very, very sore.
There is a way
to stop the ball,
It isn't very
hard at all,
All it takes
is wisdom
And I'm absolutely
sure
We could get
it back into the box
And bind the
chains and lock the locks
But no one
seems to want to save the children anymore.
Well that's
the way it all appears
'Cos it's been
bouncing around for years and years
In spite of
all the wisdom wizzed
Since those
wondrous days of yore,
And the time
they came across that box
Bound up with
chains and locked with locks
And labeled,
'Kindly do not touch, it's war.'"