Your Daughters And Your Sons

They wouldn't hear your music

And they pulled your paintings down

They wouldn't read your writing

And they banned you from the town

But they couldn't stop you dreaming

And a victory you have won

For you sowed the seeds of freedom

In your daughters and your sons

In your daughters and your sons

Your daughters and your sons

You sowed the seeds of freedom

In your daughters and your sons

Your weary smile it proudly hides

The chainmarks on your hands

As you bravely strive to realise

The rights of everyman

And though your body's bent and low

A victory you have won

For you sowed the seeds of justice

In your daughters and your sons

I don't know your religion

But one day I heard you pray

For a world where everyone can work

And children they can play

And though you never got your share

Of the victories you have won

You sowed the seeds of equality

In your daughters and your sons

They taunted you in Belfast

And they tortured you in Spain

And in that Warsaw ghetto

Where they tied you up in chains

In Vietnam and in Chile

Where they came with tanks and guns

It's there you sowed the seeds of peace

In your daughters and your sons

And now your music's playing

And the writing's on the wall

And all the dreams you painted

Can be seen by one and all

Now you've got them thinking

And the future's just begun

For you sowed the seeds of freedom

In your daughters and your sons