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Earth Shall Be Fair
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Wrote this for a Christian Aid appeal to raise funds for Street Kids in Brazil. It subsequently featured in a TV documentary about the problem. Sadly the problem has never gone away. http://www.taskbrasil.org/
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Peak #65
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Adrian Pratt
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Adrian Pratt 1990
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October 06, 2023
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MP3 7.9 MB, 320 kbps, 3:26
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Story behind the song
The Presbyterian Church of Wales hold annual appeals for worthy causes high,ighted by Christian Aid. In 1990 the focus was on Brasil and included tne plight of street children. This song was an attempt to support the project. It later featured in a TV documentary. Video of the song in both English and Welsh can be found on Youtube and links can be found on my Soundclick video page.
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Earth Shall Be Fair Pablo's just a boy who lives on the streets He's got an empty stomach and no shoes on his feet Don't ask him why there are seven million just the same At night he sleeps in fear, sometimes he prays to God Deliver me from evil, save me from the death squad To most of the people he doesn't even have a name It's not fair, is there no one left to care Will there ever be a day, when the earth shall be fair It's not fair, Surely there's enough to share Won't you join me in my prayer That the earth shall be fair Domingo used to farm upon a plot of land Till soldiers with machine guns took it from his hand He headed fir the city to build himself a future there But now he lives in a cardboard home With a blanket, a wife and broken radio United to his neighbors in a community of despair It's not fair, is there no one left to care Will there ever be a day, when the earth shall be fair It's not fair, Surely there's enough to share Won't you join me in my prayer That the earth shall be fair Let us listen for the voice of Jesus calling speaking to us through their need "Whatever you do for the least of my brothers You're doing it for me" It's not fair, is there no one left to care Will there ever be a day, when the earth shall be fair It's not fair, Surely there's enough to share Won't you join me in my prayer That the earth shall be fair That one day earth shall be fair
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