Kendall wants me to learn this one so I got the words from Ed Trickett's CD 'Echo On The Evening Tide' and thought I might as well put them on the Mudcat as they don't seem to be available anywhere that I have looked.

WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE THE OLD SONGS GONE
(Words & music by David Hanni)

Where in the world have the old songs gone that sang our youth to sleep
Where the songs we used to sing our souls safely to keep
Sing a new song to the Lord, the old songs are forgotten, are forgotten
Sing the breaking if the sword, moonchild misbegotten,
Sing the darkness into light
Sing till blindness yields to sight, yields to sight

Where in the world have the old songs gone, that sang the harvest full
Where the songs the ploughman knew, to make mighty oxen pull
Sing a new song to the Lord of wind and laughing water, laughing water
Sing to sleep the hate torn horde, though the lamb still goes to slaughter
Sing that death is overthrown and the seed of mercy sown, sing it sown

Where in the world have the old songs gone the old man and his lyre
And where the songs that gathered warm around the winter fire
Sing a new song to the Lord, the old songs are forgotten, are forgotten
Sing the breaking of the sword, moonchild misbegotten,
Sing the darkness into light
Sing till blindness yields to sight, yields to sight

Where in the world have the old songs gone the songs of ancient yearning
Where the songs we used to sing, they were our only learning.