Peacemaker - Hoyt Axton

It was a war bond

That paid the doctor

When he was born it wasn’t easy

He had a fever

And he was dying His dad was fighting across the sea

He was almost to sweet Canada’s Border

When he ran into a man who was high

On Gun powder and a federal order

That says you’ve got to fight and die

He answered I’m a runnin'

From the people who are gunnin' down

The people who are running for life

I just wanted to be free

To be all that I was promised

By the fathers of our fathers long before

Now it’s gettin' kind of queasy

And I’m feelin' kind of seasick

I think that it’s time for me to go

He was almost to sweet Canada’s Border

He was almost to sweet Canada’s Border

When he ran into a man who was high

On Gun powder and a federal order

That says you’ve got to fight and die

When the man said surrender

He kept right on a’goin'

He could see his brother Jesus by his side

And they knew he was’nt fakin'

When the bullet started quakin'

Through the body of a peacemaker who tried

And he died for his country and he was not mistaken

Takin' his body back home

He would’nt go into the far eastern jungle

Takin' his body back home

He just wanted to be free

To be all that he was promised

By the fathers of our fathers long before

And he died for his country and he was not mistaken

Takin' his body back home

He was almost to sweet Canada’s Border

He was almost to sweet Canada’s Border

He was almost to sweet Canada’s Border

He was almost to sweet Canada’s Border