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Lyrics and music  Marja van Trier

Piano  & arrangement Peter Claessens
Accordeon & arrangement Michael Breukers
recording Tafelbergstudio Tilburg

You can’t ask a bird not to fly.

You can’ t ask a bird not to fly
and you can’t ask a thief not to lie
And you can’t ask the soldiers not to die
And you can’t ask their mothers not to cry

Because the bird will fly in spite of you
And the thief shall lie in spite of you
And the soldiers die, quite a few
And their mothers cry quite a few

But you can teach your children not to fight
And you can teach your children not to hate
And you can teach your children to live right
And then maybe it is not to late for peace.
Late for peace, not to late for peace