If I Were Only a Child Again - Curtis Mayfield

If I were only a child again

No one’s ever been, oh, good to me since then

Everywhere I looked it seemed so color bright

There were never such things to me as black and white

The idea of just going, letting all come what may

Yesterday to the latest, everything seems quite okay

Remember when we were part of that precious few

Everything it seemed was so pure and true

I guess we were just too young to understand

The unselfish cause of death and war and roles of man

Only, only, only a child

Only, only, only a child

Only, only, only a child

Only a child again, hey, hey

If I were only a child again

I would never want to venture life like this again

People of the world hurling sticks and stones

Like the sore fates of one come up and break my bones

Only, only, only a child

If I were only a child again

And have the ability to understand

I’d speak for little people from the date of birth

And ask the grown ups, when will there be peace on earth?

Grown ups, when will there be peace on earth?

Brother, when will there be peace on earth?

Only, only, only a child

Only, only, only a child

Only, only, only a child

Only a child again, hey, hey

Only, only, only a child

Only, only, only a child