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by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983)

[No title]
 (Sung text for setting by R. Fleming)
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Language: English 
Don't pay attention to the old men in the temple:
they have given up.
Tell them what you told me: cast the sinners out, clean
the house of God, load the rich with grief, prepare the
poor with hope and Jesus, don't stop to play with
Judas and his friends along the way.

Composition:

    Set to music by Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 - 1976), no title, 1966, published 1968, from The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary), no. 2

Text Authorship:

  • by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983), appears in Beyond the Blues -- New Poems by American Negroes, first published 1962

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This text was added to the website: 2009-07-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 53

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