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Thread #29569   Message #374742
Posted By: Haruo
15-Jan-01 - 03:14 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Holy God, You Raise Up Prophets
Subject: LYR ADD: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
My dad marched with Dr. King, too, though I'm not sure if he went to the March on Washington. Columbus, GA, maybe? Possibly Selma. I do recall writing to Dr. King when he was in jail (all of us kids wrote to him).

Incidentally, when I attended the service at St. Mark's (Episcopal) Cathedral at the end of the Justice Conference two years ago, the part of the liturgy that would normally be the (New Testament) Epistle was a passage from a letter of Dr. King's. The preacher was Mel White of Soulforce. And one of the songs, which I can't find in the DT (certainly should be there was "Keep your eyes on the prize":

Paul and Silas bound in jail,
Had no money for to go their bail.
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on, hold on

Hold on! Hold on!

Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.


Only thing that we did wrong
Was stayin' in the wilderness so long
Keep your eyes...


Only thing that we did right
Was the day we begun to fight,
Keep your eyes...


Etc. There are other verses, and I don't recall offhand which ones we did two years ago. The version at the Cathedral was not the one I grew up with (to wit the one on Pete Seeger's Carnegie Hall album), but it was recognizably the same song, different version.

Liland