perm filename VALLEY.SF[1,BGB] blob
sn#001275 filedate 1972-10-28 generic text, type T, neo UTF8
00100 THE VALLEY
00200
00300 New am I to this country,
00400 just today have I come,
00500 down from the mountains,
00600 up from the south,
00700 thru the pass,
00800 along the highway,
00900 in from the sea,
01000 to this valley,
01100 valley of green to the west,
01200 valley of brown to the east,
01300 valley that's flat here between.
01400
01500 How call you its names ?
01600 How do you live ?
01700 Is there peace or war ?
01800 Are your leaders wise or foolish ?
01900 Does art and science flourish ?
02000 What crops grow here ?
02100 Have you news of the kingdom and the nations beyond the horizons ?
02200
02300 Welcome stranger to our valley,
02400 sit and rest and smoke a joint.
02500 We are warriors in this valley,
02600 among our orchards are the weapons of the kingdom,
02700 day and night we fight the battles,
02800 day and night we build the weapons,
02900 so has it been now for a hundred years.
03000
03100 You look not to be a warrior,
03200 you have not the arm to wield a sword,
03300 and in this land I've seen no soldier or battlement,
03400 Only orchards and fields and children playing,
03500 yet you say you are of the Kingdom.
03600 Do you mean The Mighty Kingdom ?
03700
00100 Yes I am a warrior of the Mighty Kingdom,
00200 come I will show you my battle station over there beneath that tree,
00300 See this is my keyboard,
00400 and this is my display screen,
00500 This is where I fight the enemies of the kingdom,
00600 Many enemies have I conquered,
00700 Many enemies have gotten away,
00800 and still many enemies confront the Kingdom...
00900
01000 Among the orchards are many stations,
01100 and many warriors, some at keyboards and displays,
01200 others at kilns and ovens to make the semi conducting chips,
01300 others work the many metals,
01400 others sift and refine the ores,
01500 others do the photo etching,
01600 others do the lead bonding,
01700 others do the assembly,
01800 Then all is buried underground,
01900 all the systems, all the units,
02000 all the memory, all the processors, all the bombs,
02100 all the missles, all the weapons
02200 are buried under ground,
02250 under the orchards where children play.
00100 What good is a weapon that's underground ?
00200 When do your weapons shed enemy blood ?
00300 Who are your enemies ?
00400 Where do they live ?
00500 What have they done to you or you to them ?
00700