[Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"

[Isobel A Bishop]

Dear David Walters and all,
The small part I recall of the late Russell Campbell is this:    ( this will need some help from others.) 

Russell and Kaye Hayes were assigned to work around the northern part of Australia-   around Darwin and to some of the Aboriginal Mission stations-  Russell used to wear sandals that he had made out of  used tyres. 

When Russell was living in the Sydney House, he composed both the Contemplation song-  ' Come walk with Francis' and the Being song.  The music would be blaring out  loudly most of the day while he wrote his poetry. 


Russell always wore a very simple grey 'safari suit' . He had made it himself.  He wore his dark, wavy hair shoulder length. 
When he was assigned to the children's structures, the children always did interesting and different activities- e.g..,climbing trees. 

Grace and peace,
Isobel Bishop




On 27/07/2013, at 6:25 PM, J and J Barker <jkjmbarker at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Maybe good to recall that words written by the late Russell Campbell.
> 
> Jonathan B
> 
> On 27/07/2013, at 11:58 AM, jonzondo at juno.com wrote:
> 
>> thank you, Jaime.
>> Jon
>> 
>> 
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>> Please note: message attached
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>> From: Jaime R Vergara <svesjaime at aol.com>
>> To: oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
>> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:23:15 -0400 (EDT)
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>> Jon, not formatted the nice way it is on a one sheet but this might work for your purposes:
>> 
>> BEING
>> Tune: Theme from "Black Orpheus"
>> My life is as
>> Vast as the sea
>> No boundaries no 
>> Floor beneath me.
>> 
>> Yet as I look within
>> 
>> No man has greater sin.
>> I am the least of all
>> 
>> I daily fall.
>> 
>> But it's then when
>> I Doubt that I can
>> 
>> I choose to be nothing
>> For man.
>> 
>> To die is my lot
>> 
>> I live as if not
>> 
>> With Paul
>> I merge with all.
>> I see then as
>> Never before
>> The secrets of
>> heaven my store.
>> With wisdom twice my age
>> My life an open page
>> Though with each insight
>> Gain a deeper pain.
>> Yet I live with the Lord on my side
>> And wild intuition My guide.
>> I'm sent as a sign
>> 
>> The bread and the wine
>> My form
>> And virgin born.
>> Then I act seeing
>> Action is vain
>> And accomplishments
>> Never as gain.
>> To only do is less
>> Than forming humanness
>> So mission I must be
>> To set men free.
>> Called to burn as an Undying flame
>> Each word and each Gesture the Name.
>> 
>> I must through life-loss
>> An exalted cross
>> 
>> My place
>> 
>> Reveal his face
>> Then the Lord through
>> My life prays a prayer
>> And my being is
>> Filled being there.
>> I can invent anew what
>> All the saints once knew
>> By being who I am
>> 
>> I create man.
>> And it's no longer
>> I who is seen
>> 
>> But the Lord standing
>> There in between.
>> Finished as I die
>> Held there between
>> Sky and sod
>> To save our God.
>> Yes, it's there on the limbs of the worm eaten tree where the All and the Nothing can BE.
>> 
>> j'aime la vie
>> 
>> Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jonzondo <jonzondo at juno.com>
>> To: oe <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> Sent: Sat, Jul 27, 2013 10:09 am
>> Subject: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
>> 
>> hello community,
>> 
>> A last minute request...
>> If anyone has the lyrics for the song, "Being" I would like to use them for my 
>> father's memorial service tomorrow.
>> 
>> singing in beauty,
>> Jon
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