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The Bells Of Gethsemani
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Joan Baez
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(Music by Joan Baez, Words by Thomas Merton)
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Sweet brother, if I do not sleep
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My eyes are flowers on your tomb
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And if I cannot eat my bread
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My fasts shall live like willows where you died
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If in the heat I find no water for my thirst
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My thirst shall turn to springs for you, poor traveler
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Come, in your labor find a resting place
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And in my sorrows lay your head
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Brother, take my life and bread
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And buy yourself a better bed
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Take my breath and take my death
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Buy yourself a better rest beneath the bells of Gethsemani
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When all the men of war are killed
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And flags have fallen into dust
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Your cross and mine will tell men still
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He died on each for both of us
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That we might become the brothers of God
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And learn to know the Christ of burnt men
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And the children are ringing the bells of Gethsemani
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For in the wreckage of your April Christ lies slain
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He weeps in the ruins of my spring
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The money of whose tears shall fall
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Into your weak and friendless hand
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And buy you back to your own land
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The silence of whose tears shall fall
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Like bells upon your alien tomb
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Hear them and come, they call you home
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And the children are ringing the bells of Gethsemani
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Yes, if they had been there
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They would have taken that crown of thorns from his hair
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And stayed for a while in that place of despair
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Ah, but what do I see, my brother is there
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And he's ringing the bells of Gethsemani
Joan Baez - Blowin' in the Wind (Live 19...
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