Track: 6. Women Gathering Round — 2:30

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Lyrics:

Chorus:
Women gathering round,
women gathering round,
women gathering round.

Verse 1:
Some carry roses and some carry guns
for the loss of their mothers, fathers, daughters and sons.

Chorus

Verse 2:
Too many claims on the land of the Bible -
How can the spirit prevail?
Let the healing between Sarah and Hagar
be the peace between Isaac and Ishmael.

Chorus

Verse 3:
White child, brown child sitting on a fence,
Just a stone's throw from innocence.

Chorus

New verse, not on recording:
Some of us mothers, all of us daughters, moving in a mighty stream, let wisdom flow through each generation, giving courage to all of our dreams.

Chorus

Verse 4:
I see the women of Soweto, the women of Chile,
the women of the Middle East.
I see the women of Palau and of Guatemala*
building their vision of peace.

Oh, we are all women gathering round.
Oh, we are all women gathering round.

*Newer version of line: Afghanistan and Sarajevo

Text, Music © 1989 by Linda Hirschhorn

Vocals: Linda Hirschhorn, Tay Holden, Rosalind Glazer, Max Ventura, Judith-Kate Friedman

Dumbek: Sky Pelicrow

ISRC: US-CGH-05-76343

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