I Come and Stand at Every Door
Seeger, Hickman
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   D           C               D
1. I come and stand at every door
    D            C                D
   But none can hear my silent tread
      G         D    C      D
   I knock and yet remain unseen
       C                    D
   For I am dead, for I am dead.

2. I’m only seven although I died
   In Hiroshima long ago.
   I’m seven now as I was then,
   When children die they do not grow.

3. My hair was scorched by swirling flame
   My eyes grew dim, my eyes grew blind.
   Death came and turned my bones to dust
   And that was scattered by the wind.

4. I need no fruit, I need no rice,
   I need no sweets, nor even bread.
   I ask for nothing for myself
   For I am dead, For I am dead.

5. All that I ask is that for peace
   You fight today, You fight today.
   So that the children of the word.
   May live and grow and laugh and play.

Repeat the first verse.