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Version 1

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X:1
T:The Box
Z:Webmaster
C:Kendrew Lascelles
N:Monologue
K:
W:Once upon a time in the land of hush-a-bye
W:Round about the wondrous days of yore
W:They came upon this kind of box
W:All bound with chains and locked with locks
W:And labelled "kindly do not Touch, it's WAR"
W:
W:A decree was issued round about
W:All with a flourish and a shout
W:And gayly coloured mascots tripping lightly on the fore
W:"Do not tamper with this deadly box"
W:"Don"t break the chains or pick the locks"
W:"Please don't ever play about with war"
W:
W:Well the children understood
W:Children happen to be good
W:And they were just as around the time of yore
W:They didn't try to break the chains or pick the locks
W:They didn't play about with war
W:
W:Mommies didn't either
W:Sisters aunts grannies neither
W:They were quiet and sweet and pretty in those wondrous days of yore
W:Fairly much the same as now
W:Not the ones to blame somehow
W:For opening up that deadly box of war.
W:
W:But someone did,
W:Someone battered in the lid
W:And spilt the insides out across the floor
W:A Kind of bouncy bumpy ball, filled with guns and flags and all the tears and
W:Horror and death, that goes with war.
W:
W:It bounced right out and went crashing all about
W:And bumping into everything in store
W:And what was sad and most unfair
W:Is that it didn't really seem to care much who it bumped
W:Or why, or what, or for.
W:
W:It bumped the children mainly
W:And I'll tell you this quite plainly
W:It bumps them evry day and more, and more
W:And leaves them dead and burned and dying
W:Thousands of them sick and crying
W:Cos when it bumps
W:Its really very sore
W:
W:Now there's a way to stop the ball
W:It isn't difficult at all
W:All it takes is wisdom
W:And I'm absolutely sure
W:We can get the ball back in the box
W:And bind the chains
W:And lock the locks
W:No one seems to want to save the children any more
W:
W:Well that's the way it all appears
W:That balls been bouncing round for years and years
W:In spite of all the wisdom whiz since those wondrous days of yore
W:When they came upon this kind of box
W:All bound with chains and locked with locks
W:And labelled "Kindly do not touch"
W:"ITS WAR"

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Song by Kendrew Lascelles
Country of origin: England
A monologue

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