"PEACE PILGRIM SONG!"
by Pat Lamanna


her name was Peace Pilgrim
her age was unknown,
she carried no money
and she had no home
she walked our land
for twenty-eight years
to show us we can
overcome our hatred
and our fears

she said I will walk
until I’m given shelter
and I will fast until
I’m given bread
I will remain a wanderer
until mankind has learned
the way of peace

her message was simple
we’ve heard it all before
we cannot learn peace
while we’re waging war
good will conquer evil
truth will conquer lies
love will conquer hatred
if only we will try

she carried in her pockets
everything she owned
some nights she slept
on pillows and some nights
she slept on stones
one day out on the highway
she shed her robe of clay
but the message
that she carried
still lives on in us today

the place to begin
is deep within yourself
then you can show the way to someone else
when enough of us
have learned to live in harmony
the old ways will crumble
and our love will set us free

as we stand here
on this corner in
sun and rain and snow
we remember Peace Pilgrim
and her words of long ago
though her spirit
flew to freedom
in nineteen eighty-one
shes standing here
among us
as our prayers
for peace are sung
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Link to Peace Pilgrim Song Below
Written and Sung
by Pat Lamanna
https://www.reverbnation.com/patlamanna/song/19588870-peace-pilgrim
      Peace Pilgrim Song by Pat Lamanna