by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983)
Don't pay attention to the old men in...
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.
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Text Authorship:
- by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983), appears in Beyond the Blues -- New Poems by American Negroes, first published 1962 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 - 1976), "Don't pay attention to the old men in the temple", 1966, published 1968, from The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary), no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-07-26
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Word count: 53