CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY

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Song Title
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY
Writers
Weill, Anderson
Publisher
HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PUBLISHING CORP. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%
Territory Controlled
US
Themes/Keywords
1950's, Angry, Broken, Country, Cry, Destruction, Land, Strong
Lyrics
Cry the beloved country!
Cry the beloved land!
The wasted childhood, the wasted youth, the wasted man!
Cry the broken tribes, and the broken hills,
And the right and wrong forsaken,
The greed that destroys us, the birds that cry no more!
Cry the beloved country!
Cry the lost tribe, the lost son, the lost!

Cry the unborn child, the inheritor of our fear,
Let him not laugh too gladly in the water of the clove,
Nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes the veld red with fire.

Cry the unborn son, fatherless,
Let him not be moved by the song of the bird
Nor give his heart to a mountain,
Nor to a valley.
Cry the beloved country (cry the beloved country),
Cry the beloved land (cry the beloved lan),
Cry the lost son, the lost tribe, the lost!
The great red hills stand desolate,
Cry the beloved country,
And the earth has torn away like flesh.
Cry the beloved land.
These are the valleys of old men and old women,
Of mothers and children.
Cry the beloved land!

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