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Chorus Lyrics December 23, 2020

12/22/2020

Love Always Is

Namo Valo Kiteshvaraya
Namo Valo Kiteshvaraya
Namo Valo Kiteshvaraya
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Sometimes, You Got To Relax Your Mind
by Leadbelly
G G7
When your drivin' in your automobile
C G
Keep you hands on that steering wheel
G E C
Sometimes, you got to relax your mind
G D
Your mind

G G7
Relax your mind, relax your mind
C G
It makes you feel so fine sometimes
G E D C
Sometimes, you got to relax your mind
G D
Your mind

And when, the light turns green
Put your foot on the gasoline
Sometimes, you got to relax your mind,
Your mind

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Am                                                 F                         E
God rest ye merry citizens let nothing you dismay
Am                                                                F                        E
Remember that the light of Love is born in us each day
       Dm                   C                             Am                         G
Reminding us of who we are when we have gone astray
       C                 F      G          Am                         G
Oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
        C                F      G          Am
Oh tidings of comfort and joy

And now with joy sing praises
All you within this place
And with true Love and sisterhood
Each other now embrace
The blessing of a new born child
Has filled our hearts with Grace
Oh tidings….
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Dance!
The Soul Is New
words by Lal Ded 14th Century India
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Breath of God
© K Hannan

Am                                    G           Am                                       G
        They laid him in a manger               the little baby child
Am                                                              E                           E7
       The angels came to greet him with a song so sweet and wild
Am                                              G                  Am                      G
       The stars were fierce and magic     real glory from above
Am                                                                              E                          E7
        His parents wept and trembled;   they’d never known this kind of Love
F                                    C             Dm                        E
     The little boy was holy, every witness knew it’s true
          F            G     Am                                   F    G        Am
Cause in each tiny heartbeat, the breath of God came through
          F       G   Am
The Breath of God

There comes another baby they lay her on the ground
She is not born in Bethlehem still the angels come around
She’s born there by the highway where the homeless people stay
A little crowd has gathered & the wise ones kneel and pray
The baby girl is holy, every witness knows it’s true
Cause in each tiny heartbeat,
the breath of God comes through
It’s the Breath of God

Now some are born in castles to cradles made of gold
And some are born in frozen fields and sleep out in the cold
But maybe Jesus told us and we did not understand
That every baby born on Earth is born on sacred land
And every child is holy, every witness knows it’s true
That in each tiny heartbeat, the breath of God comes through
It’s the breath of God   in me and you
The Breath of God
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Melody is bolded - melody is normal except for pause second line.
Descant Soprano starts:

'Neath the silent stars, a town is sleeping
                                                     Silent night
Shepherds on the hill their watch are keeping
                                                            Holy night
Their flocks are safe within the fold
           All                 is     calm
Secure from danger, want, or cold
   All                  is      bright
Silent,                   silent           night
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy,                  holy           night
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in peace        Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
           In       peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

O'er the moonlit plains angels are singing
From the realm afar glad tidings bringing
We see their robes of glistening white
Reflecting a celestial light
Silent Silent night
Holy Holy night
Sleep in peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
In peace.
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~ ~ ~ ~ Rise Up Shepherd & Follow
There's a star in the east on Christmas morn
Rise up shepherd and follow
It will lead you to the place where the baby is born
Rise up shepherd and follow

Follow, follow, rise up shepherd and follow
Follow the star of Bethlehem
Rise up Shepherd and follow

If you take good heed to the angel's words
Rise up shepherd and follow
You'll forget your flock, you'll forget your herd
Rise up shepherd and follow

Follow, follow, rise up shepherd and follow
Folow the star of Bethlehem
Rise up shepherd and follow
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Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad, Prospero Ano y Felicidad
Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad, Prospero Ano y Felicidad

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna with you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart

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Chorus Lyrics December 16, 2020

12/16/2020

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Sacred Dark / Resilience / Return of Light

Dear Choristas,
Please bring a candle to chorus,
and something to light it with.
Do not light it at the beginning.
We will all light them later on.
And please have these words below with you!
Thank you! Love, K
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Sisters!
Sisters!
We have come here tonight
to do something remarkable
to do something revolutionary
to do something beautiful
We have come to take back the night!

Take back the night
Take back the long lazy dream time night
Take back the dark
Take back the beautiful dark waiting soil
Take back the circle
Take back the cycle of death, decay and rebirth
Take back plants rotting and sliding
and changing into rich black earth

Take back the beautiful beautiful beautiful color black
Take back the black satin midnight sky
holding a round silken shining moon

Take back the moon and all her names
Luna, Selene, Grandmother
Mahina, Chang’e, Neesa
Oya, Anahita, iNyanga
Chandra, Mawu, La Lune,
Take back her wisdom, her courage, her power

Take back resting
Take back our bodies sleeping under warm feathers
dreaming, dreaming, dreaming

Take back stillness, and waiting
Take back mystery and healing and true, deep change

Take back the ancient knowledge that all things that grow
seeds, babies and dreams
come out of the dark

Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night

(Now turn off all your lights!)
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Solstice Song
by Becky Reardon
Deep down in the belly of the night
Dream deep winter dreams
And lie safe in your grandmother's arms
Still as a seed
Still as a seed
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Channukah / Solstice
by Linda Hirschorn
play in Eminor capoe up 1 bar to F

Em Em
Turning turning spirits yearning
Em D Em
Reaching for the night
Em
Colors going shadows growing
Em D Em
Darkening the light
C G
Ancient story told
C G
Renewed with the cold
Em D
Mystery of light
  C B7
Burned into the night
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Sae Will We Yet
by Walter Watson 1780-1854 (last verse modified by KH)
Play in G capoed up 5 bars to C

        G                                                    D                        C
Sit down here my cronies     and give us     your crack
                G                                                   C   D         G
Let the wind    take the care    of this life on its back
                G                                                  C (Am)             D
For our hearts   to    despondency we never will submit
                      G                     D                      C                    D
Fore we’ve aye been provided for, and sae will we yet

Chorus
          G                                    D                C
And sae will we yet     and sae will we yet
                   G                      D                       C                   D
For we’ve aye been provided for, and sae will we yet

So fill   us    a tankard      of nappy      brown ale
It’ll com-fort our hearts       and enliven the tale;
And we’ll aye    be the merrier        the longer that we sit
For we’ve drank together many’s the time and sae will we yet
Chorus

Here’s a health to    the farmers,     and prosper their plows
Rewar-ding their ardent toils        all the year through
For the springtime   and the harvest      we ever will get
For we’ve lippen’d aye   to providence, and sae will we yet
Chorus

So lift up your voices, let the harmonies go round
For the sun it will rise, though the moon has gone down
We’ll all go dancing round and round, and never we’ll forget
When we fell we aye   got up again, and sae will we yet
Chorus
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Millenium Grace
words by Stephen Levine

There is a grace approaching
that we shun as much as death,
this grace is the completion of our birth.
It does not come in time,
     but in timelessness
     when the mind sinks into the heart
     and we remember.

It is an insistent grace that draws us to the edge
It is an insistent grace that draws us to the edge
Insistent grace, insistent grace
We know we must pass beyond knowing
We know we must pass beyond knowing
        And we fear the shedding.

But we are pulled upward none-the-less
through forgotten ghosts
and unexpected angels, luminous.
Luminous,     luminous
And there is nothing left to say
nothing left to say
There is nothing left to say but    We are That
      And That is what we sing about
That is what we sing about
That is all we ever sing
That’s all we ever sing

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Chorus Lyrics December 9, 2020

12/8/2020

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Angel Wash
We behold you beautiful one
We behold you child of the Earth and Sun
Let your love wash over you
Let our love wash over you
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The Angel Song
Schlomo Carlebach

This is a Jewish prayer song that calls on four angels for protection, Michael, Gavriel, Uriel, and Raphael. In Hebrew these names translate to: "Who is like you, God?", "God's Strength", "Light of God" and "It is God Who Heals". Shechinat el refers to the feminine aspect of God. Roshi means my head, so above my head is the Shekinah. This prayer echoes other spiritual traditions that call to the four directions in rituals for casting a circle of protection.

Lyrics:

B'sheim hashem elohai yisrael
m'yemini Michael u'smoli Gavriel
u'milfanei Uriel, m'achorei Raphael
v'al Roshi, v'al Roshi Shechinat el

In the name of the name, the one of the one
To my right is Michael to my left is Gavriel
In front of me is Uriel and behind me Raphael
and all around surrounding me, Shechinat el

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Poslan
a 16th century Czech song
english words by Meggan Moorhead

To Mary came the Angel
whose name is Gabriel
For innocence is love's dwelling
For open hears is the blessing
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Angel Band
adapted lyrics for tonight by K Hannan

My latest sun is sinking fast
My race is nearly run
My strongest trials now are past
I'm resting in the One

chorus:
Oh, come, Angel Band
Come and around me stand
Your light, your harmony, sings in me
Right Here Alive Right Now
Your light, your hamony, sings in me
Right Here Alive Right now
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Millenium Grace
words by Stephen Levine

There is a grace approaching
that we shun as much as death,
this grace is the completion of our birth.
It does not come in time,
     but in timelessness
     when the mind sinks into the heart
     and we remember.

It is an insistent grace that draws us to the edge
It is an insistent grace that draws us to the edge
Insistent grace, insistent grace
We know we must pass beyond knowing
We know we must pass beyond knowing
        And we fear the shedding.

But we are pulled upward none-the-less
through forgotten ghosts
and unexpected angels, luminous.
Luminous,     luminous
And there is nothing left to say
nothing left to say
There is nothing left to say but    We are That
      And That is what we sing about
That is what we sing about
That is all we ever sing
That’s all we ever sing
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Every Little Child
© K Hannan 2003
One little child was born on Christmas day
One little child was born on Christmas day
One little child, one little child
One little child was born on Christmas day

One little child was born in Summertime
One little child was born in Summertime
One little child, one little child
One little child was born in Summertime

One little child was born in Spring
One little child was born in Spring
One little child, one little child
One little child was born in Spring

One little child was born in Autumn time
One little child was born in Autumn time
One little child, one little child
One little child was born in Autumn time

And the angels came, did you hear them sing?
In the shining light of the maternity wing
Sayin' "People do not be afraid, Love is new.
In the heart of every child Love is born to you!"

Love is born, love is born
Love is born in the rivers, in the mountains
Love is born in the heart of every child
Love is born
Love is born in the foxes, in the earthworms
Love is born in every living thing
Love is born in you and me right now

And the angels came, did you hear them sing?
In the shining light of the maternity wing
Sayin' "People do not be afraid, Love is new.
In the heart of every child Love is born to you!"
In the heart of every child Love is born to you
In the heart of every child
In the heart of every child
In the heart of every child
Love is born!

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Every Blade of Grass
words William Blake
melody Cynthia Crossen

Every blade of grass has its Angel
Bending over it and whispering
And whispering
Grow, grow, grow
Likewise we have angels bending over us

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Chorus Lyrics December 2, 2020

12/2/2020

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Lay Back In The Arms of Love
by Gina Sala

Lay back in the arms of Love
Lay back in the arms of Love

Rest back in the arms
You are safe from harm
Rest back in the arms of Love

Aee no naka ni yasu
Aee no naka nee yasu
Aee no naka wa
Anzen dayoh
Aee no naka ni yasu

愛    の中に        やす
Aee    no naka ni    yasu
Love   inside of        rest

愛    の中に        やす
Aee    no naka ni    yasu
Love   inside of        rest

愛     の中わ
Aee      no naka wa
Love     inside of

あんぜんだよう
Anzen       dayoh
safe                is

Ai = Love
no = particle/ownership of Love
naka = inside
yasu = slang for yasumi (rest)
gai = harm
anzen = safety

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Buddha in Glory
Ranier Maria Rilke

Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.
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No Part Left Out
words Izumi Shikibu 10th century Japan
music & dance - K Hannan

Watching the moon at midnight
Alone in the middle of the sky
I saw myself completely
I saw myself completely
I knew myself completely
Whole, no part left out
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Long Time Sun
May the long time Sun shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on

Sat Nam

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When I'm 64

When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a Valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine

If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you

I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride

Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck and Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away

Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
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God Danced
God danced the day you were born
The angels did the bump to Gabriel's horn
Bod danced the day you were born
So grateful for the gift of you

I saw God do the funky chicken
Steppin' and kickin' in blue suede shoes
I saw God do the boogaloo too
So grateful for the gift of you

Now some folks say that long ago
God couldn't dance to save Her soul
But St Peter taught her how to jelly roll
So grateful for the gift of you!

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Rain Prayer
With every step I took
I knew I knew you
In every drop of rain
I knew I knew you
They say it's you who always stays
It's me who falls away
Oh show me how, I'll come back now
This is all I pray

sopranos:
Took a walk, in the rain
And for a while
I knew you
In every drop, I heard your voice
Just for a while
I knew you
They say it's you who always.... stays
It's me who falls.....away
Oh show me how I'll come back now
This is all This is all This is all I pray
Out Beyond That Road
words - Rumi & K Hannan
music - K Hannan

No colors in the world just black and white
You were wrong and I was right
But I won’t go down that road no more
I won’t go down that road no more
‘Cause we knew in our hearts when the towers fell
We can make a heaven, we can make a hell
And I won’t go down that road no more
I won’t go down that road no more

I know that
Out beyond that road there is a field
Out beyond that road there is a beautiful field
When the soul lies down in that grass
The world is so full
The world is so full
The world is too full to talk about

Even words like you and me don’t mean nothin’
when we get down in that field
In that field of the heart
Out beyond that road there is a field
Out beyond that road
there is a field
Out beyond that road.....

Where the Heart does not need to ask
The Heart does not need to ask..... repeat as a chant

Love, I'll meet you in that field,
In that field of..... Repeat as a chant

Where the smallest flower on the smallest grass
Shines with the answers to the question
Heart does not need to ask
Where the smallest flower on the smallest grass
Shines with the answer to the questions
Heart does not need to ask

Then repeat the two chants till end

In that field of Love!

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I am
© Kirtana    (student of Gangaji)

Before the body    before the story     before the name
Beyond the mind’s      attempt to find       or explain
Before the breath       beyond the sense     of pleasure or of pain
And after death        and after death
I am

Within the heart           the whole and part of everything I see
Behind the eyes        beyond disguise           reflecting me
At the silent core         and yet before        phenomena began
Oh and after it                and after it
I am
Oh.......

Many differences         separate us   on the surface, yes
But I cannot find           a boundary        in consciousness

And when you ask me             where does awareness
begin and does it end
I have to say I have to say
I’ve always been

Within the body        without the body         not subject to
Changing moods or        states of health or         points of view
Without needs         before the deeds and the monuments of man
Oh and after them                 and after them
I am

Oh...........

Many differences          separate us on the surface     yes
But I cannot find            a boundary           in consciousness
And when you ask me
Where does awareness        begin and does it end
I have to say I have to say I’ve always been

At the silent core         and yet before          phenomena began
And after it           and after it
I am

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Die while you're alive,
and be absolutely dead
Then, do whatever you want:
It's all good
Bunan 1603-1676

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I Don’t Know
© K Hannan 2012

Standing in the sunlight, all my plans are wrecked
I’m just standing here, I don’t know what comes next

I don’t know
My mind tries to know but I still don’t know
I don’t know
My mind tries to know what I cannot know

All the birds are singing by the sunny creek
It’s December 2nd , could be warm next week!

I don’t know
My mind tries to know but I still don’t know
I don’t know
My mind tries to know what I cannot know

And deep deep under
Love keeps flowing like a river
Like a river
A river
Endless Love River
Endless Love
Endless Love River
Endless Love

I don’t know
My mind tries to know but I still don’t know
I don’t know
My mind tries to know what I cannot know

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Chorus Lyrics November 25

11/25/2020

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For The Beauty Of The Earth
by Folliott S. Pierpoint 1835-1917 (original lyric “Lord of all to Thee we raise”  is modified here to “To the universe we raise.”)
D             A        G A   D       G           Em   A          D
For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies
D            A               G     A     D    G      Em      A          D
For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies
D                  G A         Bm
To the Universe      we raise
G                         A6   A    D          Em          A6 A       D
This our hymn of grateful praise

For the beauty of each hour, of the day and of the night
Hill and vale and tree and flower,
Sun and moon and stars of light
To the universe we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise

For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind’s delight
For the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and sight
To the Universe we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise

For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child
Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild
To the Universe we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise

One More Time
One more time, one more time, with hearts and minds together
Let us send our Greetings and our Thanks

To Each Other as People, we see the cycles of life go on
May we always live in balance and harmony
We give thanks to our Mother Earth, whose body we walk upon
And who gives us all that we could ever need

To the Water in all its forms from the ocean to our sink
Water is life that quenches thirst and washes us new
To the Fish who cleanse and purify the water that we drink
And who give themselves to us as our food
Chorus

To the Plants upon this earth, for the wonders that they work
Absorbing and transforming the sun into life
We are grateful for those who still know
how the Medicines can serve
in the Garden, in the shade, and in the light

We turn our gratitude and thanks to all of the Animals now
We are glad they are here for they have so much to teach
To the Trees for their shelter, their fruit, their beauty, and so we bow
To these great symbols of strength, great symbols of peace
Chorus

Now our hearts can fly with the Birds who remind us to enjoy
Soaring and singing all of our days
To the Four Winds that blow, cleaning the air,
and the seasons that they employ,
To the Thundering Grandfathers whose Lightning brings change

On our knees we welcome in our eldest brother the Sun
Every day without fail he travels the sky
Grandmother Moon, leader of women,
who guides the birth of all children
Who lights up the night, marking time, and changing the tides
Chorus

To the Stars that scatter across the sky, and guide us home at night
And remind us that we are oh so very small
We bow before the Enlightened Teachers
who have come to share the light
How to live in harmony, reminding us all

To the Creator, Great Spirit, great thanks for the gifts of this Creation
All we need is here, and the love around us is here to stay
We have come to the end of our words, if something was forgotten
May everyone give thanks in their own ways Chorus

Te Aroha

C7
Te aroha - all embracing Love
F                  C
Te whakapono - Faith Truth Wisdom stand in truth
C    Am    C Am
Te rangimarie – Peace
C           G7 C
Tatou tatou e - All beings including ourselves

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Phonetical Pronunciation

Tay ah..rowhah ah ah
Tay fahkahpono
Tay rahahng ee mahreeay ay
Tahtow tahtow ay

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Hard Times Come Again No More

A                                            D           E      A
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
   D           A         E                       A
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
                   A                                D     E          F#m
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
D       A              E                     A
Oh! Hard times come again no more.

Chorus:
              A                                D    A
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
A                    D      A     B                      E
Hard Times, hard times, come again no more.
          A                                      D           E       F#m
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
D     A               E                    A
Oh! Hard times come again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
Chorus

'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
'Tis a wailing heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
Chorus

Thank You

I can sing a billion songs       Dance 'til my feet are numb
Spin ’til I'm empty and poor    I can't praise Love enough

I can shout ’til my voice gives way   Leap 'til I have no strength
Lose my breath tryin’ to explain      I can't praise Love enough

And if time were to stall, I can never tell it all
Words are few, this will have to do

I just wanna thank You    I just wanna thank You    I just wanna thank You
Whoa   I'm so grateful
I just wanna thank You Love   I just wanna thank You, yes, I do
I just wanna thank You I am, I'm so grateful

You sang 'til I found my song    You danced 'til my heart woke up
Now I move to the rhythm of love      I can’t praise You enough
I wept ’til I found my strength      Lost my breath tryin to find you
Now I'll never go back to that grave     I can’t praise Love enough

And if time were to stall, I could never tell it all
Words are few, this will have to do

I just wanna thank You   I just wanna thank You   I just wanna thank You    I'm so grateful
repeat...

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