What a great song by Joe Wise. You don’t even have to check if this one got a tick from the NLMB, you know it hasn’t. With lyrics calling to “old lovers” and describing God as “the Mother of all,” you know it won’t.
It can be bought as part of a collection here.
This song was written in 1982 and it sounds like it was written for a different Catholic Church than the fearful reactionary one we live in now. A call for radical equality in the church, even in the words of Paul, just is not popular anymore – not enough respect for the hierarchy you know.
Refrain
Neither Greek, nor Jew, nor slave, nor free,
Neither woman nor man, but children are we,
Of the same God, the one Lord,
The Father of all, let it be.
Verse 1
From the four winds, and the high seas,
From the lowlands, and the valleys
We come to the table; to the Saviour, to the call.
Refrain
Verse 2
Your sons and your daughters, young brides and old lovers,
We come from the waters that spring from your side.
Refrain
Verse 3
From the one cup, from the one bread,
At the one meal we are all fed
Once more in the body, in the Spirit, in the dream
Refrain
The Mother of all, let it be.
© Joe Wise 1982.