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Thread #77979   Message #2759032
Posted By: oldhippie
03-Nov-09 - 07:42 PM
Thread Name: Crusades, Holy War, Jihad:Trad. Ballad?
Subject: ADD: What You Preach (Sarah Crews)
Here's another newer one.


WHAT YOU PREACH
[ folk -- written by Sarah Crews; Prescott, AZ ]

   We are living in dangerous days
   And I am frightened by what you say
   We are bound to guard our borders
   Sacrifice our soldiers

   What kind of world is this
   Where hatred can persist?
   It chills right to the core
   This talk of holy war

   Really love your brother
   Love your neighbor like that too
   And only do to others
   What you would want them to do to you

   What they did in New York City
   Is the darkest kind of crime
   What can we tell our children
   If we respond in kind?

   We only teach them violence
   It is how the West was won
   Destroy the man who is different
   Than your own begotten son

   And really love your sister
   Love your neighbor like that too
   And only do to others
   What you would want them to do to you
   What you would want them to do to you


   We are living in dangerous days
   And I am frightened by what you say
   It chills right to the core
   This talk of holy war



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