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Where Have All Our 'Lake Futures' Gone?

Inspired by Pete Seeger's Song, and Out of Concern for Candlewood Lake's Welfare Now Threatened With the Introduction of Chemicals

Where have all our Lake’s plants gone, long time agrowing?

Where have all our fishes gone, long time aswimming?

Where has our intricate ecosystem gone, long time aligning?

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Where has all our Lake’s beauty gone, long time admired?

Where have all our blessings gone, long time enjoyed?

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Where have all our memories gone, long time embraced?

Where have all our Lake’s children gone, long since asplashing?

Where have all our sportsmen gone, long since acatching?

Where have all our neighbors gone, long since amoving?

Where has our Lake’s life gone, squandered never again to grace?

Where have our ‘Lake Futures’ gone, now impossible to replace?

Where have we gone so amiss as to put our treasured Lake at risk?

Gone to graveyards, everyone. Gone to graveyards, everyone.

What were we thinking, what were we thinking a long time ago?

Oh, when will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

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