(Happy Birthday and Happy New Year
December 31st,
2013
A Song for My Dear Friend
Phillip Stroud
#932249)
Here it is, another year’s
end
Farewell, hello, begin
again
You’ve got mountains to climb
Though you’ve climbed a
few
Lots more valleys to cross
Than the ones you’ve come
through
Storms that might press
you
Down to the ground
But you always come round
Can’t stay down for long
There are songs that need
to happen
Need your soulful steady rappin’
Slappin’ down staccato rhythms
Layin’ down tongue
twistin’ lines
Squeezing sweetness from
prison lemons
Turning water into wine
Making music shake the
walls of hell
Till heaven rings the
dinner bell
And all our hurting, hungry
kin
Eat the bread of hope
again
Drinking deep the cup of
freedom
Inside, outside, drunk on
freedom
Light the candles on the
table
Burn the flame till all
are able
You and me and all those
brothers
Sisters, children,
daddies, mothers
Able to begin again
Wrap arms around another
year
Another chance to make it
clear
That love can conquer all the
fear
Fear that makes us hate
the other
Different god, different
color
Different customs,
different lover
Fear of equal rights for
all
Fear that builds the
prison wall
Buys the guns and fights
the wars
Kills the hope of peace on
earth goodwill to all
Unless the songs of love
and light
Can find their wings, escape
the night
Make music shake the walls
of hell
Till heaven rings the
dinner bell
And all our hurting, hungry
kin
Eat the bread of hope
again
And, you, dear friend, at
this year’s end
Farewell, hello, begin
again
Light the candles on the
table
Burn the flame till all
are able
You and me and all those
brothers
Sisters, children,
daddies, mothers
Able to begin again
To sing the song of love
and light,
To be the wings that scale
the night
Drinking deep the cup of
freedom
Inside, outside, drunk on
freedom
Glenda for the Poplar Grove Muse
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