Open your eyes my newborn son
See your world that's new begun
Growing the land beneath our feet
Heaven sent across to eat crust
Hush-a-bye taste the sweetness of your years
By and by we'll all learn the taste of tears.
Open your eyes my [A]growing son
There is hard work to [C7]be [Am]done
Follow your father to [C7]his toil
His bend your back and [Bm]break the soil
Who can say what you [A7sow beneath the sand
Day by day something stirs our sleeping land
Open your eyes my [A]gentle son
Take your leave and [Bm]take your gun
Follow your father through the hills to [C7]the hills
Heaven gives and [Bm]heaven kills
Go with God and [Bm]the youg men in their prime
Here I'll wait where I waited all [Em]through time
Open your eyes my [A]beloved son
Is your day so quickly done ?
How can you [A7fall [Em]asleep so soon
When the sun stands yet at noon [C7]?
Walk with me where we walked spring ago
Come and [Bm]see the flowers have begun to [C7]grow
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