Lay Down Your Swords, Boys - Shawn Mullins

A new day’s a comin' first sight of the sun It’ll shine like a beacon on

whoever shall love While sweet baby Jesus rides the wing of a dove

Now our color filled country is a giant strip mall It’s a joke in the men’s

room misspelled on the stall

But when it’s all over, ain’t no colors anyway Like an old silent movie,

only black, white and gray

Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns A new day’s a comin' first sight

of the sun

It’ll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love While sweet baby Jesus rides

the wings of a dove

Well the bad guys are gone, boys

We run most of them down

When we flattened the hillsides

And we pummeled the ground

And speaking on bombs, boys

You’d better believe

That it’s better to give boys

Than it is to receive

Lay down your swords, boys

Lay down your guns

A new day’s a comin' first sight of the sun

It’ll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love

While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove

Now Old Glory’s still flyin', just like before

And your kids ain’t believin' in nothin' no more

And you can’t really blame 'em

Same shit we were fed

From the pages of schoolbooks

To the Bibles we read

Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns

A new day’s a comin' first sight of the sun

And it’ll shine like a beacon

On whoever shall love

While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove