A song about war inspired by a book called "The Cellist of Sarajevo" wherein a man plays a cello in the middle of the destruction, offering a fragment hope.
lyrics
Glory Be
There’s a man playing the cello
As bombs drop all around
Music like sparrows
As buildings tumble down
There’s a woman in line
Waiting to buy bread
Bullets tear through the air
And everyone is dead
Chorus
Glory hallelujah
Glory be, Glory be
There are snipers in the buildings
Rifles at the doors
Babies cry for mother
Mothers cry NO WAR
There’s a hunger for silence
A hunger for peace
The man playing the cello
Begins another piece
Chorus
There’s a man at the crosswalk
His child at his side
When the bullets pause
They run to the other side
There’s them and there’s us
There’s war—is there peace?
The man playing the cello
Begins another piece.
Chorus
Glory hallelujah
Glory be . . . . . eeaa
Glory . . . . be
Glory hallelujah
Glory be . . . . . eeaa
Glory . . . . be
Daddy
I’m going up the country
To see my daddy one more time
sit with him on the front porch
And watch the world go by
We’ll look at old photographs
Mama in her wedding gown
our dog chasing the rabbits
us kids in our little town
Chorus
The wind blows through the birch trees
A song it’s always sung
Life goes by in a moment
Seems like it’s just begun
My daddy used to hold me
In the palm of his hand
I was just a baby and
He was a strong young man
Chorus
I’m going up the country
To see my daddy one more time
put my hand on his hand
and watch the world go by.
from Love in Your Country,
released October 13, 2018
Rosanne Olson, vocals and guitar; Jed Myers, guitar; Ted McMahon, drums; Bob Heavner, bass; Chorus harmony: Kelly Harland, Alicia Dara, Jed Myers, Rosanne Olson
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