Jerusalem Road

Written by Sid Griffin and Pat McGarvey

Will you help me brother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

Will you help me mother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

It runs right by the factory n' its brown and turgid streams

It lays right by the crooked brook n' its smokestacks full of steam

Its pavement full of pounding hoofs n' concrete cracked so mean

Its cobblestone past quiet homes filled with small town dreams

Will you help me brother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

Will you help me mother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

When favoured sons with all their guns have to lay down swords

When Washington sleeps in the sun peaceful with no chore

When foreign lands with desert sands can feed all of their poor

When every living breathing thing won't have to cry for more

I can see it in the evening as the night comes fadin' in

I can feel it in the morning as the day wakes to begin

Will you help me brother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

Will you help me mother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

If everything is said and done n' paid out at the till

If thoughts were trials and some of us suffered for free will

If one and one and one and one added up to nil

If all the love that's in this world could just once hold her still

Will you help me brother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

Will you help me mother? walkin' down Jerusalem Road

Jerusalem Road Jerusalem Road

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