[Oe List ...] Words to a song

[Lynda C]

Great to rehearse those special words.  Any recollections of how it was written? Research Centrum?  Was it a cabaret song?  Or penned by one of our anonymous poets?    Lynda
From: OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Cc: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Words to a song

IN THE WORLD OF SPIRIT

Tune: If Were A Rich Man


In the world of spirit, radically contingent, trustful expectation, intense shock

Life's impacted by the mystery, and it's all a cloud of awe!

In the world of spirit, revelation of enigma, wheel of fortune, no excuse

One essential task, create the world, sudden reeling, mystery's won the day.


Oneness of all creation, wholly engulfed in marching with all of history,

Binding the wounds of time, everything's worthwhile.

The other world you see through all and move mountains, and there's none to show the way,

All in love with life and all poured out.


In the world of spirit, resurrectional existence, gloriously condemned to waltz.

Rapture walks with woe, struck dumb by bliss, playing in a symphony.

In the world of spirit, irresistibly impelled, and simply all a‑tingle now

Running on an endless marathon, sudden reeling, mystery's won the day.


Repeat 2nd and 3rd verses through "all a‑tingle now"


Coda:

Running on an endless marathon, suddenly deciding I'm the one

Running on an endless marathon, Mystery has won the day.



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On Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 12:30:22 PM MST, Judi White via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:


Can anyone remember the words to the song with the tune, "If I were a rich man?" and the words "Oneness of all creation wholly engulfed..." , or the title and directions to find it?  I have four songbooks here and can't find it in any of them. this does not mean they are not therre, actually, but my eyes did not see them. Judi White
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