This song came out in the early seventies. Before the EPA was created. Back when the Cuyahogo river in Ohio caught fire every few years. The river was so polluted it was effectively dead.
A small reservoir near Springfield is has a sign that basically says "go ahead and catch the fish just don't eat them." Especially if you are a child or an expectant mother. The run off from a failed mine makes it to the lake and contaminates it with goodies like mercury.
So at the very least Leave Them A Flower. And everything else you can.
I speak on behalf of the next generation
our sons and our daughters, their children to come
What will you leave them for their recreation
An oil slick, a pylon, an industrial slum
our sons and our daughters, their children to come
What will you leave them for their recreation
An oil slick, a pylon, an industrial slum
Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
You plunder and pillage, you tear and you tunnel
Trees lying toppled, roots finger the sky
Building a land for machines and computers
In the name of progress the farms have to die
Trees lying toppled, roots finger the sky
Building a land for machines and computers
In the name of progress the farms have to die
Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
Fish in the ocean polluted and poisoned
The sand on the beaches stinking and black
And you with your tankers, your banks and investments
Say, Never worry, the birds will come back
The sand on the beaches stinking and black
And you with your tankers, your banks and investments
Say, Never worry, the birds will come back
Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
When the last flower has dropped its last petal
When the last concrete is finally laid
The moon will shine cold on a nightmarish landscape
Your gift to your children, this world that you made
When the last concrete is finally laid
The moon will shine cold on a nightmarish landscape
Your gift to your children, this world that you made
Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to
A gift given once for eternity
Author Willie Whyton. version I know covered by Ed Ames
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