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Colum Sands
	Year:	2003
	Album:	THE NOTE THAT LINGERS ON
	Song:	The child who asks you why
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: vocals, guitar, tin wistle, Ben Sands: mandoline Anne sands: Backing vocals Nuala Curran: Cello Karen Tweed: Accordion
I am the child with troubled eyes You'll see me when the deed is done I am the child who asks you why From the picture on page one I am the child who questions if the world Must be this way I am the child who wants to know What you will do today Did you see my tears amid the jeers on my first day at school Or how I clutched my mother's arm when the neighbours brought the news Did you hear me asking for your help to keep hunger's pangs away When I held out my paper cup on the streets of your town today Did you see me in the shadows of ancient Greece and Rome And across the years where men of war made rubble of my home It makes no difference where or when, New York or Afghanistan While force remains the language, I'll never understand. I am the child who's old too soon yet hope lives near my door For growing up can be a way of growing young once more And love will stoop to conquer minds and weapons fierce and wild When people learn to see again with the wonder of a child.