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Weeping (demo)

by Mother of Order

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First published in the Rochdale Pilot, 22 Nov 1862

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WEEPING? Yes! few eyes are tearless,
Gloom is spreading over all,
See the lordly mansion cheerless;
View despair in homesteads small.

Weeping lovers meet in sadness,
Weeping fathers, weeping wives,
Children, too, forget their gladness;
Poverty chills all their lives.

War, and death, and desolatoion,
Ever saunter arm-in-arm,
Mists and fogs o’erspread the nation;
Life seems losing every charm.

Weeping singers sing of sorrow
In the streets of every town;
Those at home can beg, or borrow,
They must keep gaunt hunger down.

Weeping bandsmen blow for hours;
Miles on miles afar they roam;
Frost and hail, and chilling showers
Check them not – they play for home.

God of Hosts! look down upon us,
Help the sorrowing sons of toil;
Shower thy blessings gently on us,
Or bid us kiss the rod and smile.

If it please thee, gracious Father,
Stay the war and grant us peace;
Thou, who mak’st the tempest gather,
Thou can’st bid fierce passions cease.

Then shall weeping turn to gladness,
And ourselves the better be;
Joy shall yet come forth from sadness;
Hope shall spring from misery.

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released January 21, 2019
Words - Abe Jones
Music and Arrangement - Mother of Order

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Mother of Order England, UK

Mother of Order were Cath Rogan and the late Martin Hall. Born from shared politics, shared concerns and a general anarcho- syndicalist outlook on life.

They write and sing songs of industry and songs of love.

Their first album, Warp and Weft is songs of and about the Lancashire Cotton Famine.

They also have a repertoire of bawdy folk songs and modern material with a folk twist
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