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NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!
IS EASTER JUST ANOTHER CULTURAL HOLIDAY LIKE CHRISTMAS WITH NO RELEVANCE OR REFERENCE TO GENUINE SPIRITUALITY?
OR, DOES THE PASSION (PASSIONE...pasion...Neigung...Paixao...) of Jesus the Christ connect us without reservations or boundaries to forgiveness, feeding the poor, embracing our enemies, sheltering the homeless and getting in touch with the genuine sanguine depths of our existential humanity?
I humbly suggest that we (as Bernie Ward used to tell us) as adults should leave "our crayons in the vestibule and match our Christian beliefs with real time works for peace and social justice, as He did." After all, Jesus did not frequent the Fairmont Hotel or the SAINT BONAVENTURE: HE CURED THE LEPERS AND FED THE MULTITUDES AND SCORNED THE RELIGIOUS HIPOCRITS LIKE THE PHARISEES AND THE SADUCEES...a real life's HAPPY EASTER...BUONA PASQUA...FELIZ IL DIA DE LA PASQUA) TO EVERYONE AND PEACE ON EARTH TO ALL GOOD MEN AND WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN). Wayne Dennis Kurtz.
The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the King James version of the Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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The Biblical text posits there being a time and place for all things: laughter and sorrow, healing and killing, war and peace, and so on. The lines are open to myriad interpretations, but as a song they are commonly performed as a plea for world peace, with stress on the closing line: "a time for peace, I swear it's not too late," the latter phrase being the only part of the lyric written by Seeger himself.
The song is one of a few mainstream songs to set a large portion of scripture to music, other examples being The Melodians' "Rivers of Babylon", Sister Janet Mead's "The Lord's Prayer" and U2's ""40""
The song was published in illustrated book form by Simon & Schuster in September 2003, with an accompanying CD which contained both Seeger & The Byrds recordings of the song. (ISBN-10: 0689852355 & ISBN-13: 978-0689852350) Wendy Anderson Halperin created a set of detailed illustrations for each set of opposites which are reminiscent of mandalas. The book also includes the Ecclesiastes text from the King James version of the Bible.
Handwritten lyrics to the song were among the documents donated to New York University by the Communist Party USA in March 2007[1].
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