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Artist: Harry Chapin
Canonical path: /chapin-harry/i-wonder-what-would-happen-to-this-world
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I Wonder What Would Happen to this World
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I Wonder What Would Happen to this World
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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 life TIME
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
'Bout what would happen
What would happen to this world
Well I wonder what would happen to this world
As I look around us
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
Lies on the final line
Are we brave enough
To see the signals and the signs
I wonder what would happen to this world
We see the people
We see them marchin' down
Do we join the parade
Or do we try and turn around
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
And 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
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