49 bye byes / america's children

Singer: crosby, stills, nash & young

forty nine reasons all in a line

all of them good ones

all of them lies

drifting with my lady

we're oldest of friends

need a little work and there's fences to mend

steady girl

she was my world

till the drifter come

now she's gone

i let that man play his hand

i let them go

how was i to know

i'm down on my knees

nobody left to please

now it's over

they left in the spring

her and the drifter

lookin' for beautiful things

something happening here

what it is ain't exactly clear

there's a man with a gun over there

telling me i got to be ware

we got to stop children

watch that sound

look what's going down

what a field day

what a heat

and there's a thousand people on the street

singing songs and care inside

Lyric Context: 49 bye byes / america's children - crosby, stills, nash & young