Glory Harmony

                                 Glory Harmony

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the world made by the Lord
This beautiful earth He’s given us, our home and our reward
In His image we are shepherds and His garden is our ward
On earth his kingdom come!

Glory, glory hallelujah, glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah, On earth his kingdom come!

Spirit-flame came down upon them as they huddled in their fear
They strode out to tell his story and to make his love appear
Through our living and our caring bring a bit of heaven here
On earth His kingdom come!

Glory, glory hallelujah, glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah, On earth his kingdom come!

In the beauty of His heavens, of His earth, His deepest sea
He used life to shape their form and to create fertility
Let us use our lives in love to keep this glorious harmony
On earth his kingdom come!

Glory, glory hallelujah, glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah, On earth his kingdom come!



© Words David W. Oliver 2/23/2010
Original Words Julia Ward Howe 1862
Music William Steffe 1856 from a camp meeting song

Go Tell About the Mountains

Go Tell About the Mountains

Go tell about the mountains
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell about the mountains
The mountain tops aint there

When I was a little child
I played in mountain streams
Now they’re filled with rubble
There go my childhood dreams

Go tell about the mountains
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell about the mountains
They’re grubbing coal up there

When I was a little child
I swam in crystal lakes
Now they’re filled with toxic ash
I pray those dams don’t break

Go tell about the mountains
Over the hills and everywhere
Keep telling bout the mountains
Till everyone’s aware

Now I am an adult
My childhood dreams are gone
I still pray those dams don’t break
My children kept from harm

Go tell about the mountains
Over the hills and everywhere
Keep telling bout the mountains
Till everyone will care enough
To make it stop up there

Words © David W. Oliver 6/30/09
Mimic song to Go Tell it On The Mountain, John W. Work 1865

Resplendent Earth

                            Resplendent Earth

So beautiful, Oh planet earth, resplendent to our eyes

Green of the land, blue of the sea, and white clouds of the skies.

Life’s home in all the galaxies – in air, in sea, on land.

In our love    your fragility    now lies in our hands.

Conserve your beauty given us, protect your gifts of life,

Equality of people’s rights and liberty from strife

Catch wind and sun for energy, draw heat from underground

Give land and sea fertility; let peace and life abound.

Words © David W. Oliver 6/30/09

Music: America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates 1895

WALK SOFTLY WITH LOVE

Walk Softly with Love

Catch the wind in the sky

Catch the sunlight that shines

Take heat from our earth

Make our families thrive.

Light our schools and our minds.

Grow the gifts of our children  

Grow them with life   singing and giving.

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Keep our deserts in bounds

Keep our reservoirs full

Make our soils rich

Keep our oceans alive.

Make our wood lands grow wide

Fill our forests and skies

Fill them with birds    flying and singing.

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Let the animals roam

Let the fish swim the seas

Keep migrations alive

Let the butterflies flutter

Grow the microlife   of our earth and our seas

Let the life of earth’s past   lie sleeping not burning

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Keep the mountain tops soaring

Not pushed in the streams

Keep the lakes fresh and blue

Not dammed toxic ash

Use our land for nutrition

Not feeding our cars

Grow Canadian forests to spread cross their land

Not strip out tar sand  cooked for energy demand.

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Our cool planet, Green Earth

Cool our planet, Green Earth

Walk softly with love

On Green  Earth                                                     

© David W. Oliver 6/26/09