If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) [feat. Arlo Guthrie] [Live]

15 years ago Lee Hays and I wrote a song and we never expected it will be widely sung Perhaps me and a few more But lo and behold, two years ago a young rocker and roller made a record of it The song is all around the world now Now the interesting thing is that there is not only two ways of singing this song There's about five or six different ways But I found that they nearly all harmonize with each other Now there is a moral here somewhere It means that you can sing it the way I wrote it or sing it the way somebody else changed it Or the way somebody else changed it And the all harmonize together If I had a hammer, I'd hammer out the morning (hammer in the evening) I'd hammer out the evening, all over this land I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a woman I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning I'd ring it in the evening, all over this land I'd ring out danger, I'd ring out a warning I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land If I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning I'd sing it in the evening, all over this land I'd sing out danger, I'd sing out a warning Sing out war, sing out love I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land Well, I got a hammer and I got a bell And I got a song to sing all over this land It's the "hammer" of justice, it's the "bell" of freedom It's a song about love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land