Quite Early Morning

Quite Early Morning
by Pete Seeger
© 1969 Fall River Music Inc. (BMI)

Don't you know it's darkest before the dawn
This thought keeps me moving on
If we could heed these early warnings
The time is now quite early morning
If we could heed these early warnings
The time is now quite early morning

Some say that humankind won't long endure
But what makes them so doggone sure?
I know that you who hear my singing
Could make those freedom bells go ringing
I know that you who hear my singing
Could make those freedom bells go ringing

And so we keep on while we live
Until we have no, no more to give
And when these fingers can strum no longer
Hand the old banjo to young ones stronger
And when these fingers can strum no longer
Hand the old banjo to young ones stronger

So though it's darkest before the dawn
These thoughts keep me moving on
Through all this world of joy and sorrow
We still can have singing tomorrow
Through all this world of joy and sorrow
We still can have singing tomorrow

This song appears on Tom Chapin's 70 CD.

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