ALL THE WEARY MOTHERS OF THE EARTH
(PEOPLE'S UNION # 1)
(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
Album: Come From The Shadows (1972) RARE,OUT OF PRINT
Folk singer Joan Baez was born in New York in 1941 and began performing in Boston as a teenager,
first coming to national attention after a striking performance at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival.
Baez founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence in Carmel Valley, California,
participated in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley and in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 (Lutzow 2000). She confirms, "My foundations in nonviolence were both moral and pragmatic"
Baez's dedication to nonviolence and human rights grew as she organized an anti-war
demonstration for women and children in 1972 entitled "Ring Around the Congress."
Later that year, she traveled to North Vietnam to distribute mail and Christmas presents to American prisoners of war, finding herself in the midst of the American bombings of Hanoi. Baez remembers the event as eleven unforgettable days and nights of heavy aerial bombing.....by: Leslie Benson
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"You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live." -Joan Baez
Lyrics:
All the weary mothers of the earth will finally rest
We will take their babies in our arms and do our best
When the sun is low upon the field
To love and music they will yield
And the weary mothers of the earth shall rest
And the farmer on his tractor and beside his plow
Will stand there in confusion as we wet his brow
With the tears of all the businessmen
Who see what they have done to him
And the weary farmers of the earth shall rest
And the aching workers of the world again shall sing
These words in mighty choruses to all will bring
"We shall no longer be the poor
For no one owns us anymore"
And the workers of the world again shall sing
And when the soldiers burn their uniforms in every land
The foxholes at the borders will be left unmanned
General, when you come for the review
The troops will have forgotten you
And the men and women of the earth shall rest
© 1971, 1972 Chandos Music (ASCAP)
