Billy Talen / William Moses / arr. edited by Nehemiah Luckett (2015)
CHOIR
Blessed are you!
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Blessed are you who come from the earth!
Blessed are you who come from the earth!
Blessed are you who come from the earth!
Blessed are you who come from the earth!
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SERMON
Blessed are the small farmers
Your fingertips are like seeds.
Your harvest lays siege to Monsanto
Blessed is the artist who is not corporate sponsored
You’re the one who’s gonna teach us peace!
Somebody give me a Peace-lujah today.
Blessed are the consumers
May your Amazon drones fly into the sun
And give you a chance to clear your head!
Blessed are you who confuse consumerism with freedom
You’ll be delighted to discover the difference. Amen!
Blessed are the Beekeepers
Pollination is Poly-amory-nation.
Nation of touching 1500 flowers on each trip.
Feed us with your love!
Blessed are the Immigrants
May you cross the sea and desert and rivers and we promise to escape toward you too.
We will all be humans without orders.
Blessed are the Children,
For you shall inherit the Kingdom of fire and flood – We pray that the Earth will save a garden for your children.
Blessed are the Racist Police,
There is an underground railroad from the loved ones you murdered to the loved ones who live.
You have to take that train.
Blessed are the executives of Monsanto
When you stop what you do, a kind of wise laughter
will go out like a signal through the birds and bacteria and ancient bones of the Earth.
Blessed are you who disturb the customer
You just might be loving your neighbor
Blessed are you
You disturb the customer
You just might
You just might
Loving your neighbor
Blessed are you blessed are you blessed are you
You’re loving your neighbor
Blessed! Blessed! Blessed! Blessed!
For you take the risk to teach us to change
For you take the risk you teach us to rise up
For you even love those who won’t know what you’ve done
For as the fearful ones move toward you you bless us
You blessed us.
You blessed us all!