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Finding hope in hard times
The UK election result crashed through my news barriers. Oh, crap.
This scary turn reminds me of a song that helped me in an earlier ugly time, when I was stunned in certainty of imminent nuclear annihilation.
What can you do with each moment of your life
But love til you’ve loved it away?
Bob Franke: Thanksgiving Eve.
( The lyrics )
Three ways to hear it (hoping one of these links survives):
- Bob Franke performs with Chamber Orchestra Kremlin inside a nuke-proof bunker in Moscow
Franke writes from a Christian tradition, so it’s no surprise Amidon Choral Music arranges the song for SATB, with full recording and lyrics
More sonorous version from Irish singer Janet Holmes 2004 record, Road to the West