While in the World
Channel: Gray Cox
Date: 2012-12-27

This is a song about celebrating the spirit of love and sharing and delight that is associated with holidays -- all through the year. The core notions and sentiments come out of the Quaker tradition and their understanding that all of life is a sacrament -- and that a "plain" calendar that does not tacitly celebrate gods of war from the Greek and Nordic traditions is a more appropriate way to mark time.
Lyrics: 

While in the world folks wait in haste
 to celebrate some holiday,
some with a calendar more plain
 celebrate every day
with music in their breath
 and dancing in their steps
and gestures that do ornament each motion of their lives.

So sing we now a merry song 
 and left our laughter ring.
Lift our hearts with joy 
 and make the rafters sing
with music in our breath
 and dancing in our steps
and gestures that do ornament each motion of our lives. 

And some await a hallowed day 
to eat a fattened beast,
but every day is holy 
and every meal a feast!
with music in our breath
 and dancing in our step
and gestures that do ornament each motion of our lives.

So sing we now a merry song 
 and left our laughter ring.
Lift our hearts with joy 
 and make the rafters sing
with music in our breath
 and dancing in our steps
and gestures that do ornament each motion of our lives. 

For while in the world folks wait in haste
 to celebrate some holiday,
some with a calendar more plain
 celebrate every day
with music in their breath
 and dancing in their step
and gestures that do ornament each motion of their lives.


 
 Written and performed by Gray Cox (and welcome to be shared through a Creative Commons license ;-)