[Oe List ...] The Earth Belongs To All

[Nancy Trask]

We had some great lyricists, didn't we???  We have a few more people on earth today & perhaps global suffering rather than human suffering.  But enough after-the-fact editing!!!

Born in plenty, raised up blind,
All turned hollow, something there was wrong.
Human suffering over all the world - 
Four billion people die and never live.

Refrain:
All the earth belongs to all
That's the vision & the call
Local people rise again
to build the earth, the common earth

Joined the rebels, lost the past,
Saw destruction, nothing really changed.
Human suffering over all the world - 
Four billion people die and never live.

Then a stranger, loved by none,
All was gone, every hope had died.
Human suffering over all the world - 
Four billion people die and never live.

At the center, aweful calm,
Born of spirit, then my life was gone.
Human suffering over all the world - 
Four billion people die and never live.

>From the center we shall stand,
In every nation, throughout every land.
Building patterns to release the new,
Dying daily that the new may live.

Nancy T.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: shahn 
  To: Order Ecumenical Community 
  Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] The Earth Belongs To All


  I was talking with my parents about this thread over lunch today.  Wasn't there another song about "All the Earth Belongs to All" ... to the tune of "Country Roads?"  I only seem to remember two lines from the chorus: "All the Earth Belongs to All; That's the Vision and the Call" (maybe that's not even right) ... then I start singing the original ... "West Virginia, Mountain Mama ..."  Anyone else remember this one?

  Shelley Hahn


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