I Wonder What Would Happen to this World — текст песни (Harry Chapin)

Oh well I wonder
Yes I wonder
What would happen
What would happen to this world
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

Now if a man tried
To take his time on Earth
And prove before he died
What one man`s life could be worth
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

And if a woman
She used a life TIME
As something more than
Some man`s servant mother wife time
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

Oh well I wonder
Yes I wonder
Oh yes I wonder
`Bout what would happen
What would happen to this world
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

As I look around us
There`s such strange things
There`s muggers and there`s jugglers
And we are led by clowns
If an answer ever found us
Would we change things
Or are we just a people
Rotten ready for the ground

And if our future
Lies on the final line
Are we brave enough
To see the signals and the signs
I wonder what would happen to this world

We see the people
We see them marchin` down
Do we join the parade
Or do we try and turn around
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

Disciple children walk the streets
Selling books and flowers
Can they be last ones
With a semblance of a dream
If we say that no one`s out there
And we say we`re goin` nowhere
And we avoid the question
Is this all that it means?

Oh if a man tried
To take his time on earth
And prove before he died
What one man`s life could be worth
I wonder what would happen to this world