Because We Are One People

This song is adapted from Because All Men Are Brothers. It's message today is every bit as powerful and important as when the original was written.


Because We Are One People

J. S. Bach - additional lyrics P. Hicks & G. Francis

Because we are one poeple,
Whate'er our race may be,
One union shall unite us
For ever proud and free.
No tyrant shall defeat us,
No nation strike us down,
All folk who toil shall greet us
The whole wide world around.

All sisters and all brothers,
With every one we stand -
Where rings the cry of freedom
There is my native land.
My brothers fears are my fears,
Yellow, white or brown,
My sisters tears are my tears,
The whole wide world around.

Our eyes are ever open
To human misery -
While one may suffer hunger
No other can be free.
Each sister and each brother
In plenty shall abound,
When justice it shall triumph
The whole wide world around.

Let every voice be thunder,
Let every heart be strong;
Until all tyrants perish
Our work shall not be done.
Let not our memories fail us,
The lost years shall be found,
And slavery's chains be broken
The whole wide world around.