Comments on: Mother’s Day Proclamation (1870) by Julia Ward Howe http://imaginepeace.com/archives/6818 Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread PEACE Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jorge http://imaginepeace.com/archives/6818/comment-page-1#comment-3129 jorge Tue, 12 May 2009 13:56:43 +0000 http://imaginepeace.com/?p=6818#comment-3129 These clear thoughts by Julia Ward Howe have really touched me and brought to my head a song by Joan Baez that I used to hear very often years ago, that always made me be choked by emotion, just like today. We should be surrounded by this kind of words and feelings much more often, especially these days in which we can see and hear the suffering of many mothers because of the future of their children that seems so unclear. ALL THE WEARY MOTHERS OF THE EARTH ( PEOPLE'S UNION # 1) (Words and Music by Joan Baez) All the weary mothers of the earth will finally rest We will take their babies in our arms and do our best When the sun is low upon the field To love and music they will yield And the weary mothers of the earth shall rest And the farmer on his tractor and beside his plow Will stand there in confusion as we wet his brow With the tears of all the businessmen Who see what they have done to him And the weary farmers of the earth shall rest And the aching workers of the world again shall sing These words in mighty choruses to all will bring "We shall no longer be the poor For no one owns us anymore" And the workers of the world again shall sing And when the soldiers burn their uniforms in every land The foxholes at the borders will be left unmanned General, when you come for the review The troops will have forgotten you And the men and women of the earth shall rest © 1971, 1972 Chandos Music (ASCAP) These clear thoughts by Julia Ward Howe have really touched me and brought to my head a song by Joan Baez that I used to hear very often years ago, that always made me be choked by emotion, just like today.
We should be surrounded by this kind of words and feelings much more often, especially these days in which we can see and hear the suffering of many mothers because of the future of their children that seems so unclear.

ALL THE WEARY MOTHERS OF THE EARTH
( PEOPLE’S UNION # 1)
(Words and Music by Joan Baez)

All the weary mothers of the earth will finally rest
We will take their babies in our arms and do our best
When the sun is low upon the field
To love and music they will yield
And the weary mothers of the earth shall rest
And the farmer on his tractor and beside his plow
Will stand there in confusion as we wet his brow
With the tears of all the businessmen
Who see what they have done to him
And the weary farmers of the earth shall rest
And the aching workers of the world again shall sing
These words in mighty choruses to all will bring
“We shall no longer be the poor
For no one owns us anymore”
And the workers of the world again shall sing
And when the soldiers burn their uniforms in every land
The foxholes at the borders will be left unmanned
General, when you come for the review
The troops will have forgotten you
And the men and women of the earth shall rest
© 1971, 1972 Chandos Music (ASCAP)

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