LANDS & PEOPLES words/music: bill mallonee (admin. BMI 2015)
All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide Plantin' dreams in the soil before the Great Divide It certainly helps to have friend travelin' by your side All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide
The sweat with every step to build a life that's true Tethered to some prayers and maybe a hymn or two Some things you count as treasure and some you just let lie All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide
Some of them strode proudly & some they barely crawled Some managed to to stay just outside the long arm of the law On those who were here first? We worked violence & they died All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide
Now kingdoms they will rise & kingdoms they will crash History writes her deeds with ink made of blood & ash It's running through our veins & it rarely does subside All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide
Bridge: We make promises with fingers crossed; deals brokered with a wink Every bet is firmly hedged with flags & rhetoric And it goes like this...
Now, closing songs from sad bandstands can bring you some relief 'Cross a parking lot that's littered with our grandeur & our griefs Tonight moonlight plays her hand beneath a field of pure star-shine All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide All the lands & peoples stretching far & wide