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Text: | Words That We Hold Tight |
Author: | Bishop Dr. Adedeji Ishola |
Tune: | EKO A BA KO |
1 Words that we hold tight won’t let us go.
Paths we don’t follow will haunt us so.
What will undo us is not our friend.
Show us, O spirit, how to befriend.
Refrain:
Show us how to forgive.
To all who live,
show us forgiveness that we may live.
2 To speak of loving is not to love.
Lies move among us, below, above.
When we are raging, needing to mend,
show us, O spirit, how to befriend. [Refrain]
3 When love is doubtful, choice is not clear,
we turn to worship to cast out fear.
Teach us forgiveness, make love our end.
Show us, O spirit, how to befriend. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Words that we hold tight won't let us go |
Title: | Words That We Hold Tight |
Author: | Bishop Dr. Adedeji Ishola |
Refrain First Line: | Show us how to forgive |
Meter: | 9.9.9.9 with refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Wisdom from the World's Religions: Music of the Cultures of the World; Forgiveness and Reconciliation; Friendship(1 more...) |
Source: | Based on a text by Bishop Dr. Adedeji Ishola |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EKO A BA KO |
Meter: | 9.9.9.9 with refrain |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Traditional Yuruba tune |