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I Don't Want Your Pardon

Tom Paxton
Lingua: Inglese


Tom Paxton


I don't want your pardon, don't want your amnesty.
Don't you smile with Christian sympathising.
Don't you tell me you're forgiving me.
I am doing no apologising.

I didn't kill no children; I didn't burn no towns.
I didn't leave no country nothing but craters.
Those who did are your kind of good clean kids,
While those of us who would not, you call traitors.

Well, save your pardon for the ones who really need it.
I'm not ashamed to do what I had to do.
I'm the one who understands, had no blood upon my hands.
Maybe someday soon we'll see about pardoning you.

Hey, you think your forgiveness is everything on earth,
Something so important that I'd pay plenty.
Let me ask you: How much was it worth
To pardon that old man in San Clemente? [1]

So save your pardon for the ones who really need it.
I'm not ashamed to do what I had to do.
I'm the one who understands, had no blood upon my hands.
Maybe someday soon we'll see about pardoning you.

So I don't want your pardon, don't want your amnesty.
Don't you smile with Christian sympathising.
Don't you tell me you're forgiving me.
I am doing no apologising.
Don't you tell me you're forgiving me.
I am doing no apologising.
[1] La Casa Pacifica (Spanish for "The Pacific House"; translated also as "The House of Peace") is a classic California beachfront mansion located in the gated community of Cottons Point Estates/Cypress Shores in the casual South Orange County beach town of San Clemente, California, and overlooks the Pacific Ocean from its blufftop position. This estate is also known as President Richard Nixon's Western White House, used while living and working outside of the official presidential residence, the White House in Washington D.C.



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