Lyrics

Will You Christians and Jews

1. Osama Bin Laden is took out by raiders;

Jihadist fanatics vow still to fight on,

While their passion for violence breeds mayhem and carnage,

Distorting the vision of prophets long gone.

 

2. The USA welcomes young Islamic tourists,

To waterboard down on Guantanamo Bay;

Conveniently outside its judicial boundaries,

Together at the pleasure of the torturers’ play.

 

Chorus:   Will you Christians and Jews, with your Western world views,

Come to lie down with the Muslims and the Sikhs and Hindus?

Will you godless Chinese leave Tibetans at ease,

Meditating on the mantra “In our time, bring us peace”. 

 

3. Will drought turn to desert and water be rationed,

And bio-fuel crops replace rain-first trees?

Is it too late already to cool down the greenhouse

Or together replenish the black, oily seas?

 

4.    Now oceans are no longer teeming with fishes,

And national parks protect zebra and gnu.

Are we trustworthy stewards of all evolution,

Or killers of many for the sake of the few?

 

Chorus:   Will you Christians and Jews, with your Western world views,

Come to lie down with the Muslims and the Sikhs and Hindus?

Will you godless Chinese leave Tibetans at ease,

Meditating on the mantra “In our time, bring us peace”. 

 

5. Tornadoes are twisting across mid-America,

Earthquakes and tsunamis have shaken Japan.

With a global-scale risk of a nuclear meltdown,

We’re in it together, each state to a man.

 

6.  On a planet shrunk tiny by web-sites and e-mails,

And Facebook and Twitter and chat-room romance,

Where iPhones flash footage of news as it happens,

If we’re working together, then we might stand a chance.

 

Final chorus:  Will you Christians and Jews, with your Western world views,

Come to lie down with the Muslims and the Sikhs and Hindus?

Will you godless Chinese leave Tibetans at ease,

Meditating on the mantra “In our time, bring us peace”? 

Let’s be mindful of the mantra “In our time, bring us peace”.

 

© Dave Pierce, 2011.