Pete Seeger - All My Children of the Sun lyrics

The navigator said to the engineer
I think our radio's dead
I can hear but I can't send
And there's bad weather ahead
The pilot said to the co-pilot
Our right engine's gone
But if we can make it over these
Mountains perhaps I can set her down
All my children of the sun

Five hundred miles from nowhere we
Belly landed on a river
We bid a quick goodbye to that ship of silver
Twenty five piled out the window
Twеnty reached the shorе
We turned to see our metal bird
Sink to rise no more
All my children of the sun
We found some floating logs
We found some sharp stones
We cut some vines and made a raft
It was our only hope
The navigator said he thought there
Was a town somewhere downstream
So now each tried to do his
Best to paddle as a team

All except one young guy who
Kept arguing with the navigator
He said he'd read about a waterfall we
Would come to sooner or later
At a river's bend he persuaded us
To bring our craft to beach
But a search party found the river smooth
As far as eye could reach
All my children of the sun

Once again he persuaded us to stop
We cursed at the delay
Once again we found the river flowing
On the same old way
We said shut up your arguing
You give us all a pain
Why don't you pitch in and go your
Part be constructive for a change
All my children of the sun

Still egghead kept on talking in
The same long winded way
We said if you won't paddle get
The hell out of our way
We told him to go sit far back at the stern
Then we strained to paddle harder and
Then the river made a turn
All my children of the sun

One paddler heard sound of tapping and what
He saw when he did turn
Was egghead with a sharp stone cutting
The vines that bound the stern
With a cry of rage the paddler
Leaped up to his feet
He swung his long pole knocked
Egghead into the deep
But now the logs were splaying out
The raft had come unbound
Like mad we paddled for the
Shore before all would drown
All my children of the sun

A search party went out to find more
Vines to tie the raft up tight
In twenty minutes they returned their
Faces pale with fright
They said a quarter mile down river
We did find a waterfall
It's over a hundred feet in height
It would have killed us all
All my children of the sun

And that is why on the banks
Of a far off wilderness stream
Which none of us
None of us will ever see again
There stands a cross for someone
Hardly older than a boy
Who we thought was only trying to destroy
All my children of the sun