Don't Be A Hero - Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Paul Kossoff

Don’t be a hero, heroes are so sad

Don’t be a hero, it’ll just make you feel bad

Beware of the candyman, he doesn’t realise

That the present that he’s brought for you is gonna burn out your eyes

Old Pharaoh’s daughter once swallowed a grain

Which took her to Hades, where they blew out her brain

All the physicians just looked on in shame

Om the walls of the temple they erased her name

'I'll see you tomorrow' - I heard someone say

The man he was talking to had faded away

Oh how he must have cried when he was alone

For the devil had taken his soul and the snow had froze him to the bone

God’s living herb is OK I suppose

But the thorn in your side once grew on a rose

So just take it easy, that’s all I beseech

For love is the highest high you can reach