(i Took) A Walk Lyrics - Faces - Shawn Phillips

I took a walk through the fields of America 

I'll tell you what I saw in the middle of the garbage and erotica 

I saw a man in pain crying to be free 

Children in the rain, yelling out their glee 

Well, singers on the plain, fused in harmony 

Hey, oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

Oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

People I have seen in the streets and communities 

Running in a mortal fear of the violence and its companies 

I saw a man in hand flying to the moon 

Well, a rich man of the lands dying all too soon 

I say people in the bands you really ought to learn this tune 

Hey, oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

Oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

I took a walk through the fields of America 

I'll tell you what I saw 

I saw a murder in a place called Attica 

I saw a man called power 

Who said you've got to fit my vision 

I saw a man called law 

Said if you don't I'm going to put you in the prison 

I saw a man called peace 

Who was shaking with the laughter of derision 

Hey, oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

Oh America, they're gonna to love you 

Please be true to thee 

Oh America, they're gonna to love you 

Please be true to thee 

I took a walk through the fields of America 

I'll tell you what I saw 

I saw the blizzards and the tropics 

I saw mountain streams running free and clear, Lord 

Creatures of my dreams so beautiful I shed my tears 

You great and wondrous land 

I wonder why you cannot hear me now 

Hey, oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

Oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

Oh America, they want to love you 

Please be true to thee 

Oh America 

America, America, America, America, America 

America, America, America, America, America 

America, America, America, America, America