The Good Earth-The Monkees

[ti:The Good Earth] [ar:The Monkees] [al:The Monkees Present] [offset:0] [00:00.54]When i was a child and the road was dark [00:02.89]And the way was long and alone [00:04.28] [00:05.77]My heart would lift as i turned the bend and saw the lights of home [00:09.03] [00:10.96]Now high above in a silent sky [00:12.78] [00:13.76]In a still and starry space [00:15.29] [00:16.60]A man looks down on the earth below [00:18.38] [00:19.18]And that blue and green and shining glow [00:21.10] [00:22.17]To him is the lights of home [00:23.68] [00:25.33]It's the good earth yes the good earth [00:27.77] [00:29.09]It's a land of sun and rain and snow [00:31.04] [00:31.58]And mulberry trees and mistletoe [00:33.25] [00:34.54]And burning plains and raging seas [00:37.00]And sunday morning taking your ease [00:38.57] [00:39.84]Watching your children grow [00:41.11] [00:43.17]It's the good earth yes the good earth [00:45.71] [00:46.56]Where we fought and loved and killed and died [00:49.01] [00:49.84]And ruined and ravished the countryside [00:51.86] [00:53.62]But now from a million miles away [00:55.85] [00:56.55]From another world that's cold and gray [00:58.67] [00:59.59]Someone is able to look and say [01:01.21] [01:02.38]That's the good earth [01:03.24] [01:06.04]So isn't it time we stopped the tears [01:07.80] [01:08.92]We've lived together for thousands of years [01:10.66] [01:12.20]And whether i'm wrong and whether you're right [01:14.11] [01:15.14]Whether you're black and whether i'm white [01:16.77] [01:18.34]One day we'll stand on the edge of the world [01:20.49] [01:21.36]And someone will ask us the land of our birth [01:23.49] [01:24.85]And we'll look into his eyes and quietly say [01:26.97] [01:28.73]It's the good earth yes the good earth [01:31.59] [01:33.39]Why can't we be good on the good earth [01:36.19]The Good Earth - The Monkees [01:37.04]