Lisa Null sang this beautiful song last night. I thought it was a perfect song for Memorial Day weekend.

Sung to "Be Thou My Vision" (Irish Air) Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Optrm7lF16s

A MOTHER'S SONG TO HER NEWBORN SON
Vietnam, 1966
(Lisa Null)

Live long and grow strong, Oh child of my love
Tough as a bull and as soft as a dove
God never did intend that a young man should die
In flames of napalm in the jungle at night.

Learn to love peace and for peace do your part
Die if you must, but then die with your heart
God never did intend that my child’s bones should lay
Dry scorched by the sun on the battlefield grey.

They hit me, they hurt me, they taught me to kill
I want to to bring peace but I don’t have the will
I want to end the war and to end it right now
I want to live lovingly, but I just don’t know how

A mother looks down on her young prince of peace
His hands clutch a matchbox, he just won’t release
In panic she strikes him, in anger he cries
Her hopes for a better world slowly vanish and die.


Lisa Says: I almost never sang it except to my son, Jacob as a baby and to myself, because it is so hopeful and yet without much hope.