The Family of Man

Song Cycle by Michael Hennagin (1936 - 1993)

?. People  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
People, flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams
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Text Authorship:

  • by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), from the prologue to The Family of Man - an exhibition of photography at The Museum of Modern Art, first published 1955, copyright ©

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?. Hands here  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Hands here, hands gnarled as thorntree roots
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Text Authorship:

  • by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), from the prologue to The Family of Man - an exhibition of photography at The Museum of Modern Art, first published 1955, copyright ©

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?. Alike and ever alike  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies 
from generation to generation 
keeping the family of Man alive and continuing.  
Everywhere the sun, moon and stars, ­­the climates and weathers, 
have meanings for people.  
Though meanings vary, we are alike in all countries and tribes 
in trying to read what sky, land and sea say to us.  
Alike and ever alike we are on all continents 
in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, 
worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun.  
From the tropics to arctics humanity 
lives with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

Text Authorship:

  • by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), from the prologue to The Family of Man - an exhibition of photography at The Museum of Modern Art, first published 1955

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?. There is only one man  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
There is only one man in the world
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Text Authorship:

  • by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), from the prologue to The Family of Man - an exhibition of photography at The Museum of Modern Art, first published 1955, copyright ©

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