Conscientious Objector (I Shall Die)
1972 · Warner Bros. BS 2609 · Burbank, California
- Artist
- Mary Travers
- Title
- Conscientious Objector (I Shall Die)
- Release
- Morning glory
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Warner Bros. # BS 2609
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Burbank, California, USA
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
"Conscientious Objector (I Shall Die)" (Warner Bros. Records # BS 2609) Anti-war, singer-songwriter.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I shall die but that is all I shall do for Death / I hear him leading his horse out of the stall / I hear the clatter on the barn floor / He is in haste, he has business in Cuba / Business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning / But I will not hold the bridle while he cinches the girth / And he may mount by himself I will not give him a leg up / Though he flick my shoulders with his whip / I will not tell him which way the fox ran / And with his hoof on my breast / I will not tell him where the black boy hides in the swamp... / I will not tell him the whereabouts of my enemies either / Though he promises me much, I will not map him the route... / Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men to death? / Brother, the password and the plans of our city are safe with me / Never through me shall you be overcome
About the artist
American folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), born 9 November 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky; died 16 September 2009 in Danbury, Connecticut. [Source: Wikipedia]