From the recordings School House Sessions, Before and After, and legion of love
For the children affected by war
Lyrics
War Child
Now that the bombs are clear
And they are going back
A frightened child hides his inner fear
The war child fighting back the tears
He don’t know where his mamma’s at
He don’t know where his daddy is
He thinks that they are some-where over there
The war child fighting back the tears
He is limping home alone
Tripping over blow-up stones
His whole hometown has being destroyed
The war child’s a frightened little boy
The little girl needs her medicine
The doctors are out of insulin
(And) there’s no supplies to be found
The hospital’s a crumbled down mound
The innocent maimed by mines
Left in the land from past war times
Scared hungry children traumatised
The war child trying not to cry
The war child trying not to cry
The war child trying not to die
Now that the bombs are clear
And they are going back
A frightened child hides his inner fear
The war child fighting back the tears
Words and music by: Brentwood & B. Valentine