The Peace Carol - Bob Beers words & music
D Em
The garment of life, be it tattered and torn,
A7 D
The cloak of the soldier is weathered and worn.
Bm Em
But what child is this that was poverty-born,
A7 D
The peace of Christmas Day.
Chorus (twice by Beers Family)
D Em
The branch that bears the bright holly,
A7 D
The dove that rests in yonder tree.
Bm Em
The light that shines for all to see,
A7 D
The peace of Christmas Day.
The branch that bears the bright holly,
The dove that rests in yonder tree.
The light that shines for all to see,
The peace of Christmas Day.
A hope that has slumbered for 2000 years,
A promise that silenced 1000 fears.
A faith that can hobble an ocean of tears,
The peace of Christmas Day.
Add all the grief that people may bear,
Total the strife, the troubles and care.
Put them in columns and leave them right there,
The peace of Christmas Day.
It's on their Seasons of Peace CD
Below, the entire world knows what Canadians are doing this Christmas in Afghanistan...
 Great Canadian Heritage Treasure |
We used to hear Bob, Evelyne, and daughter Marty singing at Fiddler's Green and other venues in Toronto in the late 1960s. With Bob plucking the psaltery. General note: Popular on the folk circuit in the 1960s, the Beers were sent in 1968 by the U.S. Dept. of State on a tour of India, and once played for the White House in 1969. In 1966, they also began the popular Fox Hollow Festival in upstate New York. Bob Beers (1920-1972) died far too young, killed in a car accident. Evelyne Beers died in October 2009, in Toronto, where Marty still lives. The Beers Family sang the Seasons of Peace, at the White House in front of Richard Nixon, who was mired down in the Vietnam War, and no doubt squirmed uncomfortably. But Bob also left behind one of the finest Christmas songs, and superb, all around Hymn to Peace, ever written. We offer Bob's Peace Carol in the same vein to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who will keep the Canadian troops shooting Afghan women, children, and men, all through another Christmas (2009). And very probably next Christmas, and the Christmas after. No Canadian has ever encountered a politician they can trust... or who matches up to the lives lived, of Bob and Evelyne Beers.
|
 |
|
| Bob & Evelyne Beers, |
Note the mindless use of the label "Paardeberg" in the Canadian military. In actual fact the Battle of Paardeberg was the first time in history that Canadian soldiers launched direct attacks with artillery, machine guns, and rifles, on an exposed wagon camp of 4,000 people, that they knew for a fact, sheltered hundreds of women and children. But to them - a century ago - they were only Boers - AND FOREIGNERS, NOT CANADIANS - and so, in General Hillier's mind think, OK to kill...
 Go to the Real Paardeberg |
Mercifully, the impressionable six year old Dakota Lee Allen is not exposed to images of all the blown apart women and children in Afghanistan. The patriotic Canadian media bosses censor from the papers the many pictures of mangled women and children killed by the carnage unleashed by the NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Exactly the same media censorship is going on in 2009, about the huge toll of civilians killed by Canadians and their NATO partners. Why, first because the media barons that run the media are Judeo-Christian and don't think Muslims are human beings like the rest of us; secondly it would make the war look bad instead of glorious, worthy, and wonderful. |
Above President Obama, the first Black President of America, has disappointed most left wing pinkos by not only keeping former President Bush's policies, and key advisors, but actually stepping up a war everyone thought he had pledged to wind down (increased troops in Afghanistan, more drone strikes than Bush.)
| theCanadaSite.com |
| Copyright Goldi Productions Ltd. - 1996, 1999, 2005 |
No one in Canada has made a more joyful sound in music, of any kind, than the Beers Family of Fox Hollow fame, New York, in the 1960s.
It may be shocking to some to learn that only 4,000 Boer fighting men died during the Boer War, but 26,000 Boer women and children died as a direct result of war operations. Many starved to death like Lizzie van Zyl right. The ratio of innocent civilians killed, compared to enemy soldiers, approached 7:1. To soldiers, like Canada's General Hillier, this is merely the cost of doing business. It's a soldier's job, as he sees it.