"5 and 20 Questions" performed by The Esteemed Onions

"5 and 20 Questions" written by Mark Spoelstra. Performed by The Esteemed Onions (comprised of Gene Maurillo and David Giardina). This song is from 1962 and asks some very pointed and lingering questions about how humans continue to live their lives.

FIVE AND TWENTY QUESTIONS – lyrics

This world is a spinning and a turnin upside down
It’s struggling long the new legs of revolt
Do you see what I see in this slow land of ours
Will we go along or die beside the road
I’m just a thinkin’ in my heart about future days of us
Can you deny this heavy load
Two thousand years from now the stray folks could tell
Of the refugees who died beside the road
The history books will tell about the eagle and the bear
Only as the narrow minded few
They will tell about the millions running from your scorn
And their children who starve because of you
So there are five and twenty questions that I will ask of you
You could ask yourself five and twenty more
Some are in the bible, some from foreign lands
But few are in your mind
Few are at your door
What about the hunger that holds a lot of tears
And the refugees that pray for better years
And what about the last war has it slipped your mind
Or will another destroy the coming years
Do you help someone by serving them or learning about their ways
Can you put tears in those eyes that cannot cry
Can you give a child a coat to warm her frozen heart
Can you live alone and kiss the world goodbye
Do you read the paper every morn and think about your life
Do you really know that death is always near
Well have you read about Yemen and poor Palestine
Well reading is far from being there
Five and twenty questions, I will ask of you
You could ask yourself five and twenty more
Some are in the bible. Some from foreign lands
But few are in your mind
Few are at your door.
Have you ever heard of a crippled boy leading two blind men
Have you ever heard a one eyed woman cry
Have you ever walked three hundred miles with everything you owned
Just to ease the hunger some before you die.
Are there two, are there four, are there 6 million more
Who hate us for our riches and our guns
Do you want your blindness to kill all life
While the rich men remove the need for war
Four more questions
Resting on my mind
Can you live in this world and be alone
Can you call yourself a refugee
Your reflection your own
And how many seeds of hate have you sewn
So there’s five and twenty questions I have asked of you
You could ask yourself five and twenty more
Some are in the bible, some from foreign lands
But few are in your mind
Few are at your door.

Видео "5 and 20 Questions" performed by The Esteemed Onions канала David Giardina