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Pearls Before Swine Uncle John Lyrics
Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 10/10 [1 vote]Album: The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings / Original Release Date: 2012-07-01Genre: RockSong Duration: 2 min 56 sec
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
- Uncle John Lyrics / with translationsThe wind winds the platform
Blows through your suit creases
You want us
To crucify the enemy for Jesus
With your chamber-of-commerce soul
You talk of war so bold
God is on our side, but
He's lost in your wallet-fold
And the widows a-sighing
The children a-crying
The screams of the dying
Say you are lying, Uncle John
You pull out your Sunday God
And hold him up so proud
And say he is with us
To the Applauding crowd
But the burn-blackened place
The shredded disfigured face
Don't say that God is Love
They say that you are Hate
And the widows a-sighing
The children a-crying
The screams of the dying
Say you are lying, Uncle John
You stand up on the platform
With the flag wrapped all around you
And tell us that the Bible says
To fight for it we're bound to
But the Red's for the blood we lose
The White's for the gauze they use
To cover burned-out blackened men
The rest is for the bodies numb and Blue
And the widows a-sighing
The children a-crying
The screams of the dying
Say you are lying, Uncle John
Blows through your suit creases
You want us
To crucify the enemy for Jesus
With your chamber-of-commerce soul
You talk of war so bold
God is on our side, but
He's lost in your wallet-fold
And the widows a-sighing
The children a-crying
The screams of the dying
Say you are lying, Uncle John
You pull out your Sunday God
And hold him up so proud
And say he is with us
To the Applauding crowd
But the burn-blackened place
The shredded disfigured face
Don't say that God is Love
They say that you are Hate
The children a-crying
The screams of the dying
Say you are lying, Uncle John
You stand up on the platform
With the flag wrapped all around you
And tell us that the Bible says
To fight for it we're bound to
But the Red's for the blood we lose
The White's for the gauze they use
To cover burned-out blackened men
The rest is for the bodies numb and Blue
And the widows a-sighing
The children a-crying
The screams of the dying
Say you are lying, Uncle John
Facts about Uncle John
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Uncle John is first released on July 01, 2012 as part of Pearls Before Swine's album "The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings" which includes 20 tracks in total. This song is the 7th track on this album.
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Uncle John falls under the genre Rock.
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Uncle John song length is 2 minutes and 56 seconds.
When was Uncle John released?
Uncle John is first released on July 01, 2012 as part of Pearls Before Swine's album "The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings" which includes 20 tracks in total. This song is the 7th track on this album.
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Which genre is Uncle John?
Uncle John falls under the genre Rock.
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How long is the song Uncle John?
Uncle John song length is 2 minutes and 56 seconds.
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Uncle John
Pearls Before Swine
Pearls Before Swine
Why is this impeccable anti-war song listed as original release, 2012? My goodness, I was listening to Tom Rapp/Pearls Before Swine in the late 60s. Their album, "One Nation Underground" 1967, and Rapp's voice screaming out the lyrics of "Uncle John" felt like the depths of my own soul. ANTI-WAR! But, the entire album, every track, was superb, an absolute keepsake and touchstone of my past and present.