To Tend Mother Earth. A Lyric

In my blog of last Thursday, I observed that:

“I have just returned from a forum, hearing from some of the top environmentalist scientists in the world that the vast ecological troubles threatening the planet are not the concoctions of crack-brain doomsayers. They are very real. Blinded by narrow economic advantage, many governments, corporations and others dangerously ignore compelling scientific data going back forty years. Sathya Sai Baba did not address these immense threats to the planet. In his constant sermonizing, he all too often spoke with extreme abstraction, getting lost in ancient myths that he treated not as allegory or parable but as historic fact”.

Returning home with that forum very present in my mind, I wrote a song, the lyrics for which follow.

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To Tend Mother Earth. By Barry Pittard. 22 January 2012

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 If it takes the sweat of planting many billions of trees

To save all of the countries, and all of the people

Let’s grow instead of axe down, let’s stop the Earth’s decease

And tend this Mother Earth and bring her kind love back

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If it takes the work of unchoking of each river and stream

To save all of the countries, and all of the people

Let’s work instead of slack down and forever day-dream

Let’s tempt this Mother Earth to flow her sweet love back?

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If it takes a natural growing against what gunk pollutes

To save all of the countries, and all of the people

We’ll stop from pushing lawn-mowers, and raise blossoms and fruits

And save poor Mother Earth and draw her sweet love back

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If it takes majestic glaciers that Man cannot invent

To save all of the countries, and all of the people

Why in hell melt a glacier for a dollar and a cent?

As if this Mother Earth could sell her loving back

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If it takes a modest lifestyle to stop us getting sick

To save all of the countries, and all of the people

Nobody can stagger waif thin if nobody is far too thick

To tend to Mother Earth and win her sweet love back

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