I Took A Walk-Shawn Phillips

[ti:I Took A Walk] [ar:Shawn Phillips] [al:The Best Of Shawn Phillips - The A&M Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.53]I took a walk through the fields of America [00:04.94] [00:05.77]I'll tell you what I saw [00:07.02] [00:07.90]In the middle of the garbage and erotica [00:10.16] [00:11.13]I saw a man in pain crying to be free [00:15.23] [00:15.80]Children in the rain [00:17.26] [00:18.40]Yelling out their glee [00:20.37]Well singers on the plain [00:22.46] [00:23.45]Fused in harmony [00:27.17] [00:29.76]Hey Oh America [00:33.15] [00:33.77]They want to love you [00:35.13]Please be true to thee [00:37.26]Oh America they want to love you [00:39.82]Please be true to thee [00:43.37] [00:47.39]People I have seen in the streets and communities [00:51.39] [00:52.06]Running in a mortal fear of the violence and it's companies [00:56.73] [00:57.39]I saw a man in hand flying to the moon [01:01.30]Well a rich man of the lands dying all too soon [01:06.61]I say people in the bands [01:08.66] [01:09.40]You really ought to learn this tune [01:15.20] [01:15.85]Hey Oh America [01:19.45]They want to love you [01:20.88]Please be true to thee [01:23.33]Oh America they want to love you [01:25.80]Please be true to thee [01:29.88] [01:33.22]I took a walk through the fields of America [01:37.27] [01:37.97]I'll tell you what I saw [01:39.43] [01:40.13]I saw a murder in a place called Attica [01:42.37] [01:43.48]I saw a man called power [01:45.26]Who said you've got to fit my vision [01:47.23] [01:48.23]I saw a man called law said [01:50.32]If you don't I'm going to put you in the prison [01:52.51] [01:53.06]I saw a man called peace [01:55.16]Who was shaking with the laughter of derision [02:00.68] [02:01.75]Hey Oh America they want to love you [02:06.73]Please be true to thee [02:09.27]Oh America they're gonna to love you [02:11.70]Please be true to thee [02:14.03]Oh America they're gonna to love you [02:16.71]Please be true to thee [02:20.95] [02:24.16]I took a walk through the fields of America [02:28.26] [02:28.80]I'll tell you what I saw [02:30.29] [02:30.93]I saw the blizzards and the tropics [02:33.29] [02:33.90]I saw mountain streams running free and clear Lord [02:38.96]Creatures of my dreams so beautiful I shed my tears [02:43.17]You great and wondrous land [02:45.37] [02:46.15]I wonder why you cannot hear me now [02:51.92] [02:52.62]Hey Oh America they want to love you [02:57.58]Please be true to thee [03:00.19]Oh America they want to love you [03:02.56]Please be true to thee [03:04.97]Oh America they want to love you [03:07.46]Please be true to thee [03:09.87]Oh America [03:10.83] [03:58.81]America [03:59.81] [04:01.04]America [04:01.82] [04:03.31]America [04:04.21] [04:05.90]America [04:06.61] [04:08.15]America [04:08.94] [04:10.45]America [04:11.62] [04:12.82]America [04:13.98] [04:15.48]America [04:16.33] [04:17.76]America [04:18.74] [04:20.10]America [04:20.89] [04:22.72]America [04:23.50] [04:25.03]America [04:25.72] [04:27.35]America [04:28.26] [04:30.00]America [04:30.71] [04:32.32]I Took A Walk - Shawn Phillips