No More Guns in the Valley

There are no more guns in the valley
The water has gotten cold
Still is the handle and the bell
And the conscience in the old
Low beyond the reverence
What was brought can not be sold
For the sun will rise on the cold water
It'll fill in all the holes

There are no more guns in the valley
The children walked here without shoes
The time of awe and strife and ten have all faded from their views
And the lasting ways that once were law are rewrote and sung anew
There are no more guns in the valley
The children walked here without shoes

There are no more guns in the valley
No more need to heed a call
The air is sweet in temperance
And the providence of all
And the waking hours they wake no more
And scratch none from the talley
And like a whisper in a strangers home
There are no more guns in the valley

And there should be none
Though some would argue with that truth
And point fault towards different folks
Who might have been troubled in their youth
Like Fairfax Virginia who has done so and been rebuked
For there are none who should aspire so as to be higher
Than the truth

There are no more guns in the valley
In the stillness lay the splendour
To have and to have not marks none beyond the pale
Or for the sender
For long is the toll that ushers all
And that draws out from the lender
And there are no more guns in the valley
Salle
Salle
It's ended