Pray For Peace

Lyrics: Blind Boys of Alabama
Music: Blind Boys of Alabama

Sung by the Blind Boys of Alabama with Phil Lesh & Friends in May 2019 as part of "Dead Blues". Not to be confused with the Reba McEntire song or others with the same title.

Looking back on crossroad scene
[It might be impossible life]
A lot of change has come
But we are still not wise

Make me want to holler
Make me want to moan
But I'm gonna keep on singing
Until the morning comes

Uh, huh (pray for peace)
Uh, huh (pray for peace)
It's a prayer for peace (pray for peace)
It's a prayer for peace (pray for peace)
Uh, huh (pray for peace)
Uh, huh (pray for peace)
It's a prayer for peace (pray for peace)
It's a prayer for peace (pray for peace)

I think that our grandmothers
Would be broken hearted
To see their children's children
Right back where we started

Make me want to holler
Make me want to moan
But I'm gonna keep on singing
Until the morning comes

Uh, huh (pray for peace)
Uh, huh (pray for peace)
It's a prayer for peace (pray for peace)
It's a prayer for peace (pray for peace)
Uh, huh (pray for peace)
I'm gonna pray for peace (pray for peace)
Oh, yeah (pray for peace)
It's a prayer for peace (pray for peace)

Thank heaven for the changes
I've seen in my lifetime
Now our children teach us
To be more color-blind

Color-blind (color-blind, color blind)
Oh wish we could be color-blind
(color-blind, color blind)
Oh wish we could be color-blind

The innocence in love
Seen on our children's face
Makes me pray that ignorance
And hate will be erased

Pray for peace (pray for peace)
Pray for peace (pray for peace)
Somebody (pray for peace)
Gotta pray for peace (pray for peace)
Pray for peace (pray for peace)
Pray for peace (pray for peace)
Please, pray for peace (pray for peace)
Please, please (pray for peace)
Please, please (pray for peace)
Selma (pray for peace)
Montgomery (pray for peace)
Birmingham (pray for peace)
Greenborough (pray for peace)
Mississippi (pray for peace)
Memphis, Tennessee (pray for peace)
Charleston (pray for peace)
[I guess another wreck] (pray for peace)

If Martin Luther King
Stood on the Mount today
It would be so good
To hear brother Martin pray

If Martin Luther King
Was standing here today
I do believe that we would hear
My brother preach and pray

Pray for peace (pray for peace)
Let's pray for peace (pray for peace)
I need somebody (pray for peace)
To pray for peace (pray for peace)
Can you pray for peace (pray for peace)
Pray for peace (pray for peace)
Can I get one witness (pray for peace)
Pray for peace (pray for peace)
Let us pray for peace (pray for peace)
Somebody (pray for peace)
Pray for peace (pray for peace)
(Pray for peace)
Let's pray for peace (pray for peace)
Yes, all you need (pray for peace)
I wonder what you praying for peace (pray for peace)
[etc]
Recordings
     Date Album Recorded By
     2017 Almost Home Blind Boys of Alabama

 


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