Harry Chapin - I Wonder What Would Happen to This World lyrics

Oh well, I wonder yes, I wonder
What would happen
What would happen to this world
Well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world

Now if a man tried to take his time on earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth
Well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world

And if a woman she used a lifeline
As something more than
Some man's servant-mother-wife time
Well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world

Oh well, I wonder (Yes, I wonder)
Oh yes, I wonder (Yes, I wonder)
'Bout what would happen
What would happen to this world
Well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world

As I look around me
There's such strange things
There's muggers and there's jugglers
And we are led by clowns
If an answer ever found us
Would we change things?
Or are we just a people rotten
Ready for the ground?

And if our future (If our future)
Lies on the final line are we brave enough
To see the signals and the signs? (You know)
I wonder what would happen to this world

We see the people we see them marching down
Do we join the parade
Or do we try and turn around?
Well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world

Oh well, I wonder (Yes, I wonder)
Oh yes, I wonder (Yes, I wonder)
What would happen (What would happen)
What would happen to this world
(To this world) well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world

Disciple children walk the streets
Selling books and flowers
Can they be last ones
With a semblance of a dream?
If we say that no one's out there
And we say we're goin' nowhere
Can we avoid the question
Is this all that it means?

Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth
Well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world

Oh well, I wonder (Yes, I wonder)
Oh yes, I wonder (Yes, I wonder)
Oh, what would happen (What would happen)
What would happen to this world
(To this world) well, I wonder what would
Happen to this world
Yes, I wonder what would happen to this world