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This poem was first released on the poems, prayers and promises album. it is the only album it has been released on. 
 
Once upon a time in the land of hushabye 
Around about the wondrous days of yore 
I came across a sort of box 
Bound up with chains and locked with locks 
And labelled kindly do not touch, its war 
 
Decree was issued round about 
All with a flourish and a shout 
And a gaily coloured mascot tripping lightly on before 
Dont fiddle with this deadly box or break the chains or pick the locks 
And please, dont ever play about with war 
 
Well, the children understood 
Children happen to be good 
They were just as good around the time of yaw 
They didnt try to pick the locks, or break into that deadly box 
They never tried to play about with war 
 
Mummies didnt either 
Sisters, aunts, grannies neither 
Cause they were quiet and sweet and pretty in those wondrous days of yaw 
Well, very much the same as now, not the ones to blame somehow 
For opening up that deadly box of war 
 
But someone did 
Someone battered in the lid 
And spilled the insides out across the floor 
A sort of bouncy, bumpy ball made up of guns and flags and all the tears and horror and the death that goes with war 
 
It bounced right out 
And went bashing all about 
And bumping into everything and stored 
And what was sad and most unfair is that it didnt seem to care who much it bumped 
Or why, or what, or for 
 
It bumped the children mainly 
And Ill tell you this quite plainly 
It bumps them every day, and more and more, and leaves them dead and burned and dying 
Thousands of them sick and crying 
Cause when it bumps, its really very sore 
 
Now theres a way to stop the ball 
It isnt difficult at all 
All it takes is wisdom, Im absolutely sure that we could get it back into the box 
And buy the chains and lock the locks 
No one seems to want to save the children any more 
 
Well, thats the way it all appears 
Cause its been bouncing round for years and years 
In spite of all the wisdom wiz since those wondrous days of yaw 
And the time they came across the box 
Bound up with chains and locked with locks 
And labelled kindly do not touch, its war 
 
Words by lascelles

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