Feed the Children Songtext
von Eric Bogle

Have you seen the children
Who disturb our paradise
Staring from the TV
With empty dying eyes
No trace of anger
At the betrayal of the trust
That left them to die like starving dogs
In the famine′s bitter dust

But if you close your ears
You won't hear them crying
If you close your eyes
You won′t see them dying
And if you close your mind
Your heart won't condemn

If the future's born with every birth
How much is a child′s life worth?
Feed the children of the earth
Or the future dies with them


And have you seen the madmen
Who strut the world stage
Threatening our destruction
As they prance and preen and rage
Rattling nuclear sabres
As humanity holds its breath
Feeding on fear and bigotry
While the children starve to death

But if you close your ears
You won′t hear them crying
If you close your eyes
You won't see them dying
And if you close your mind
Your heart won′t condemn

If the future's born with every birth
How much is a child′s life worth?
Feed the children of the earth
Or the future dies with them

But if you close your ears
You won't hear them crying
If you close your eyes
You won′t see them dying
And if you close your mind
Your heart won't condemn


If the future's born with every birth
How much is a child′s life worth?
Feed the children of the earth
Or the future dies with them