Songs for the People

Let me make the songs for the people
Songs for the old and young
Songs to stir like a battle-cry
Wherever they are sung

Not for the clashing of sabres
For carnage nor for strife
But songs to thrill the hearts of men
With more abundant life

Songs
La la la la songs
Songs for the people
Songs, songs
Songs for the people

Let me make the songs for the weary
Amid life's fever and fret
Till hearts shall relax their tension
And careworn brows forget

Let me sing for little children
Before their footsteps stray
Sweet anthems of love and duty
To float o'er life's highway

I would sing for the poor and aged
When shadows dim their sight
Of the bright and restful mansions
Where there shall be no night

La la la la songs
Songs for the people
Songs, songs
Songs for the people

Our world, so worn and weary
Needs music, pure and strong
To hush the jangle and discords
Of sorrow, pain, and wrong

Music to soothe all its sorrow
Till war and crime shall cease
And the hearts of men grown tender
Girdle the world with peace



Credits
Writer(s): Gilad Hesseg, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com

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