MUSIC: "Shed a Little Light" by James Taylor

Let us turn our thoughts today

 To Martin Luther King

 And recognize that there are ties between us

 All men and women

 Living on the earth

 Ties of hope and love

 Sister and brotherhood

 That we are bound together

 In our desire to see the world become

 A place in which our children

 Can grow free and strong

 We are bound together

 By the task that stands before us

 And the road that lies ahead

 We are bound and we are bound

 There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist

 There is a hunger in the center of the chest

 There is a passage through the darkness and the mist

 And though the body sleeps the heart will never rest

 (chorus)

 Shed a little light, oh lord

 So that we can see

 Just a little light, oh lord

 Wanna stand it on up

 Stand it on up, oh lord

 Wanna walk it on down

 Shed a little light, oh lord

 Can't get no light from the dollar bill

 Don't give me no light from a tv screen

 When I open my eyes

 I wanna drink my fill

 From the well on the hill

 (do you know what I mean? )

 - chorus -

 There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist

 There is a hunger in the center of the chest

 There is a pa*sage through the darkness and the mist

 And though the body sleeps the heart will never rest

 Oh, let us turn our thoughts today

 To Martin Luther King

 And recognize that there are ties between us

 All men and women

 Living on the earth

 Ties of hope and love

 Sister and brotherhood

James Taylor

"Shed a Little Light"