Baez Joan Blessed Are Lyrics

Blessed Are Lyrics

Blessed are the one-way ticket

 Holders on the one-way street

 Blessed are the midnight-riders

 For in the shadow of God they sleep

 

 Blessed are the huddled hikers

 Staring aut at falling rain

 Wondring at the retribution

 In their personal acquaintance with pain

 

 Blessed are the blood relations

 Of the young ones who have died

 Who had not the time or patience

 To carry on this earthly ride.

 

 Rain will come and winds will blow,

 Wild deer die in the mountain snow.

 Birds will beat at Heavens wall,

 What comes to one must come to all.

 

 For you and I are one-way ticket

 Holders on that one-way street

 Which lies across a golden valley

 Where the waters of joy and hope run deep.

 

 So if you pass the parents weeping

 Of the young ones who have died

 Take them to your warmth and keeping

 For blessed are the tears the cried

 and many were the years they tried

 Take them to that valley wide

 And let their souls be pacified.

 

 Joan Baez

 Copyright 1971, by Chandos Music,

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