Denver, John - The Box Lyrics
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye, around about the wondrous days of yore, they came across a kind 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, and all with a flourish and a shout and a gaily-colored mascot tripping lightly on before. Don't fiddle with this deadly box, or break the chains, or pick the locks. And please don't ever play about with war.
The children understood. Children happen to be good and they were just as good around the time of yore. They didn't try to pick the locks or break into that deadly box. They never tried to play about with war. Mommies didn't either; sisters, aunts, grannies neither. They were quiet, and sweet, and pretty in those wondrous days of yore. Well, very much the same as now, 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 kind of bouncy, bumpy ball made up of guns and flags and all the tears, and horror, and death that comes with war. It bounced right out and went bashing all about, bumping into everything in store. And what was 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 every day and more, and more, and leaves them dead, and burned, and dying, thousands of them sick and crying. Cause when it bumps, it's really very sore.
Now there's a way to stop the ball. It isn't difficult at all. All it takes is wisdom, and I'm absolutely sure that we can 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, cause it's been bouncing round for years and years. In spite of all the wisdom 'wiz since those wondrous days of yore and the time they came across the box, bound up with chains and locked with locks, and labeled "Kindly do not touch; it's war."
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Denver, John The Box Comments
Let leaders across the globe pay heed in 2020
I remember listening to this while on a road trip from Jeffersonville, Indiana to my great grandmother's house in Paris, Tennessee. My mother was driving a tan 1973 Ford Maverick and we listened on a cassette tape that kept slowing down as the battery died. It might have been 1986 or 87.
I drove the same roads, decades later as an adult and played the same album because that's what felt right.
Wisdom from a good man.
Amazing! How wonderful it is for us to be able to hear John Denver ; indeed very moving....RIP
I used to listen to this as a five year old kid on my parents' record player and it would give me incredible nightmares.
Wonderful.
This is the first and only poem I've ever memorized.
Good for you will Dwyer. kudos
Wonderful......John Denver
heartfelt genuine and a royal pleasure to listen to mr denver.. we miss you john
I still have this album!
What was he on when he wrote this?
John Denver didn't write this. This was written by Kendrew Lascelles and released by him as a single in August of 1970. The B-side of that 45, "When All The Laughter Dies In Sorrow" was covered by Chicago on their LP "Chicago III" and recited by Robert Lamm
It was a mom I brought in for help. It was just a medical diagnosis. I waited around for three months to get help, as in the form of a corticosteroid.
I've been looking for this for years! Thank you.
I have been as well..Yessss I found it!!
The author of the poem, is experiencing some difficulties, please donate and/or share. Thank you.
https://www.gofundme.com/kendrewlascelles