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49 Bye Byes / America’s Children

This version of 49 Bye Byes / America’S Children was released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971.

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Forty nine reasons all in a line
All of them good ones, all of them lies
Drifting with my lady, we’re oldest of friends
Need a little work and there’s fences to mend

Steady girl, she was my world
Till the drifter come, now she’s gone
I let that man play his hand
I let them go, how was I to know
I’m down on my knees, nobody left to please

Now it’s over, they left in the spring
Her and the drifter, lookin’ for beautiful things

Something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to be ware
We got to stop children, watch that sound
Look what’s going down

What a field day, what a heat
And there’s a thousand people on the street
Singing songs and care inside

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The lyrics for 49 Bye Byes / America’S Children are defined as the words making up the song released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to 49 Bye Byes / America’S Children have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Stills, Nash & Young Crosby and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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