FEAR

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Song Title
FEAR
Writers
Weill, Anderson
Publisher
HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PUBLISHING CORP. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%
Territory Controlled
US
Themes/Keywords
Brutal, Civil Rights, fear, hate, Heart, Mine, Murder, Park, Prison, Race, Safe, Walk, Whipping, Whisper
Lyrics
Murder in Park Wold. (2)

Contralto and bass alternating solos
It is fear! It is fear!

Bass solo
Who can enjoy the lovely land,
The seventy years,
The sun that pours down on the earth
When there is fear in the heart?

White singers
Who can walk quietly in the dusk,
Where behind the dusk there are
Whispers and reckless hands?
Yes, we fear them.
For they are many and we are few.

Negro singers
Who can be content
When he dare not raise his voice
White singers: It is fear.
Negro singers: For fear of the whip,
The guard, the loss of his home.
White singers: It is fear.
Negro singers: For fear of the mines and the prisons,
And the cell from which there is no return!
Yes, we fear them,
Though we are many and they are few.
White singers
Who can lie peacefully a-bed
When the dark without window
Is troubled by those who hate you
For what you are and what you do?
Negro singers
You think you know what it is
To fear? Or to hate?
What is there you have not taken from us
Except hate and fear?
Yes, we fear them,
Though we are many,
And they are few.
White singers
Men are not safe in the streets,
Not safe in their houses.
Negro singers: It is fear.
White singers: There are brutal murders,
Negro singers: It is fear,
White singers: robberies,
Negro singers: It is fear,
White singers: Tonight again a man lies dead.
Negro singers: Yes, it is fear!
White singers: Yes, it is fear!
Negro singers: Fear of the few for the many,
White singers: Fear of the few for the many,
Negro singers: Fear of the many for the few!
White singers: Fear of the many for the few!
Negro singers: It is fear!
White singers: It is fear!
Negro singers: It is fear!
White singers: It is fear!
White and Negro Singers:
Fear of the few for the many,
Fear of the many for the few!

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