Bright Sunny Morning

Bert Jansch

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    On a bright sunny morning
    In downtown New York
    People are rushing to get to their work
    Unaware as the events of the day unfold
    Gonna haunt them for the rest of their lives
    For high overhead there's a mighty explosion
    A fireball on the ninetieth floor
    For like a cruise guided missile flight 11 has flown
    Straight into the World Trade Centre tower
    Everybody stands there in disbelief

    Out from nowhere arrives flight 175
    And he looks like he's gonna travel on his way
    Then he banks and turns, does a kamikaze dive
    Into the heart of the twin sister tower
    Now that look of disbelief has turned to horror and grief
    Some are on their knees praying for the dead
    With both towers ablaze the world watches on TV
    It's all there for the whole world to see
    Took twenty minutes to change history

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    Like a gambler who throws in a bad hand at cards
    The twin towers they give in to their fate
    They fall one by one, floor by floor
    Sounds like stampeding buffalo
    All over Manhattan a dust cloud settles
    That blocks out the sky and the sun
    From Brooklyn to Peking the world holds its breath
    The day the World Trade Centre fell
    On the day the World Trade Centre fell

    Who could believe what has happened today
    In this land of the brave and the free
    Who could have torn out the heart of our city
    Our proud symbol of sweet liberty
    Now the government says it knows who to blame
    And it won't stop till it cuts them down
    But that won't bring back three thousand people who died
    On the day the World Trade Centre fell
    On the day the World Trade Centre fell

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    Composition: Bert Jansch

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