Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Find The Cost Of Freedom (Written By Stephen Stills)

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground.

Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down.

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground.

Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down.

This song is often associated with the loss of life during the Vietnam war and concluded CSNY concerts during the "Stop the War" protest era of the early 70's.  Years later, CSN reprised the song in it's fuller historical Civil War context (Stills, born in Dallas but raised a Southerner maintains strong Southern roots) with the addition of the poem "Daylight Again" which precedes "Find The Cost Of Freedom" and blends both into a sad commentary on the simultaneous uselessness and necessity of war:

          Daylight again
          Following me to bed
          I think about a hundred years ago
          How my father's bled
     
          I think I see a valley
          Covered with bones in blue
          All the brave soldiers that cannot get older
          Been asking after you

          Hear the past a' calling
          From Armageddon's side
          When everyone's talking and no one is listening
          How can we decide

          Do we find the cost of freedom
          Buried in the ground
          Mother Earth will swallow you
          Lay your body down

          Written By Stephen Stills

Chris Hendricks