00:00Joan Baez is a remarkable woman, not only for her musical talents, but I think for her
00:07commitment as a human being to better the lives of people around the world.
00:12This is a song that she said that I could use on my album before she used it on hers.
00:17Thanks, Jacob.
00:20She says, I've got this one song, I haven't decided what to do with it.
00:24I really don't know what to do with it.
00:25She plays Stones in the Road, so I write this little note that says,
00:27Give it to me, and I stick it under her face.
00:30And she says, okay.
00:33And people don't usually do that nowadays.
00:35No.
00:35It's usually a big copyright thing, and a this and a that, and a management.
00:39She just gave me the song, so.
00:45When we were young, we pledged allegiance
00:50Every morning of our lives
00:52The classroom rang with children's voices
00:56Under teachers' watchful eyes
00:59I do think that there is a responsibility
01:02That goes along with being an artist
01:04To be able to speak out about things that I believe in
01:08As opposed to being silent.
01:09When we were starving children
01:10We cleaned our plates with guilty minds
01:14Stones on the road
01:17They shone like diamonds in the dust
01:21Then a voice called to us
01:25To make our way back home
01:28When I was ten
01:30When I was ten
01:31My father held me
01:32On his shoulders above the crowd
01:36To see a train draped in mourning
01:40Pass slowly through our town
01:43His widow kneeled with all their children
01:48At the sacred burial ground
01:51And the TV glowed that long, hot summer
01:55With all the cities burning down
01:59And the stones in the road
02:02They flew up beneath our bicycle tires
02:06Worlds removed from all those fires
02:11As we raced each other home
02:22When I was writing Stones on the Road
02:23I was writing it as a reminder to myself
02:27That we grew up in the 60s
02:29With certain role models
02:30People like Robert Kennedy
02:32And Martin Luther King
02:33Who could inspire us
02:34And even though they're gone
02:36What they stood for should not be
02:39And we should instill it in our children
02:41And remember it for ourselves
02:43And now we drink our coffee all the run
02:48We climb that ladder rung by rung
02:52We are the daughters and the sons
02:55But here's the line that's missing
03:01The starving children had been replaced
03:05My souls out on the street
03:08We give a dollar when we pass
03:12And hope our eyes don't meet
03:16We pencil in, we cancel out
03:20We crave the corner sweet
03:23We kiss your ass, we make you whole
03:28We doctor the receipt
03:31And the stones in the road
03:35And the stones in the road
03:36They fly out from beneath our wheels
03:39Another day, another deal
03:43Before we get back home
03:47The stones in the road
03:50Leave a mark whence they came
03:54A thousand points of light
03:57A thousand points of light
03:58Or shame, baby, I don't know
04:01We call back home
04:05We close the street
04:22We call back home
04:22And the stones in the road
04:24We call back, notence
04:25To make new hearts
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