From Peter Blood-Patterson, Songs and Events

September 24, 2020 | Adult Religious Education, Biblioteca QREC, Resources

Quaker Spring Online Retreats: 3 hours each: https://quakerspring.org/

Songs before Sunday Worship
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is traditional American gospel: https://youtu.be/i18H_TDMnGM
Guide my Feet, a traditional American Black gospel song performed by Bernice Johnson Reagon – https://youtu.be/mP0gjyElSYE
       Lyrics and different versions: https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/guide-my-feet
Annie Patterson’s weekly concerts: www.groupsinging.org/live
Daily Song of Hope, Annie and Peter: www.groupsinging.org/daily
This is an example of nueva canción from Argentine singer León Gieco. The words say “I only ask that I not be indifferent to pain, injustice, war, lies, those who must flee their homes‚Ķ”
Solo le pido a dios
Que el dolor no me sea indiferente
Que la reseca muerta no me encuentre
Vacio y solo sin haber hecho lo suficienteSolo le pido a dios
Que lo injusto no me sea indiferente
Que no me abofeteen la otra mejilla
Despues que una garra me arañó esta suerte

Solo le pido a dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente

Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente

Solo le pido a dios
Que el engaño no me sea indiferente
Si un traidor puede más que unos cuantos
Que esos cuantos no lo olviden facilmente

Solo le pido a dios
Que el futuro no me sea indiferente
Desahuciado estar el que tiene que marchar
A vivir una cultura diferente

Solo le pido a Dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente

Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente

 I only ask of God
that the pain is not indifferent to me,
That the dried death does not encounter me
Empty and alone without having done enough.I only ask of God
that injustice is not indifferent to me,
That they do not strike my other cheek
after a claw has scratched my fortune.

I only ask of God
that war is not indifferent to me,
It’s a large monster and it treads heavily
on all the poor innocence of the people.

It’s a large monster and it treads heavily
on all the poor innocence of the people.

I only ask of God
that treason is not indifferent to me,
If a traitor can more than a number of people,
that this number of people will not forget easily.

I only ask of God
that the future is not indifferent to me,
Hopeless are those who must march on
to live a different culture.

I only ask of God
that war is not indifferent to me,
It’s a large monster and it treads heavily
on all the poor innocence of the people.

It’s a large monster and it treads heavily
on all the poor innocence of the people.

 

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