Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 -- Aria Lyrics

Lyrics by Joan Baez, Music by Ennio Morricone) "Give to me your tired and your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send the...Read Full Lyrics

(Lyrics by Joan Baez, Music by Ennio Morricone) Father, yes, I am a prisoner Fear not to relay my crime The crime is loving the forsaken Only silence is shame And now I'll tell y...Read Full Lyrics

(Lyrics by Joan Baez, Music by Ennio Morricone) My son, instead of crying be strong Be brave and comfort your mother Don't cry for the tears are wasted Let not also the years be w...Read Full Lyrics

Lyrics as reprinted in Guy and Candie Carawan, Sing for Freedom: The Story of The Civil Rights Movement through it's songs, Bethlehem, pa, 1990, pp. 122-123. Come round by my side...Read Full Lyrics

Be Not Too Hard Be not too hard for life is short And nothing is given to man. Be not too hard when he is sold or bought, For he must manage as best he can. Be not too hard when h...Read Full Lyrics

We may not always be the best of lovers But if you leave it to me I think I can see We'll always be the best of friends And one day when I am old and on the porch With knittings a...Read Full Lyrics

Black, black, black Is the color of my true love's hair Her lips are like a rose so fair And the prettiest face and the neatest hands. I love the grass whereon she stands She with ...Read Full Lyrics

Blessed are the one way ticket holders On a one way street. Blessed are the midnight riders For in the shadow of God they sleep. Blessed are the huddled hikers Staring out at ...Read Full Lyrics

Minuit, chrétiens, C'est l'heure solennelle Où l'Homme Dieu descendit jusqu'à nous Pour effacer la tache originelle Et de son père arrêter le courroux. Le monde entier tressai...Read Full Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) We've watched them leaving, seen their ragged flight Children of the jungle, mothers of the night A boy of ten by the roadside lies Hears his future...Read Full Lyrics