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Build A New House

from Sing Along by Dick Grover

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CHORUS: Sing this melody,
Build a new house with me.
Yesterday is rolled up and gone,
There's a new day ready to dawn.

1. My black brother's unhappy,
he’s made to live on a few certain streets,
But we'll laugh as we cement the foundation
of a house dedicated to peace.

2. My yellow sister is hungry,
although she works in the fields all day.
In our new house she'll sit down with me,
we'll eat together after we pray.

3. My red sister is silent,
speaking her grief with her eyes.
Tomorrow she'll start teaching me how
to paint a ceiling blue as the skies.

4. My white brother is fearful
of a change that he knows must come,
But when the new day begins to dawn,
his whole family will welcome him home.

5. All my rainbow relatives
are building a house that's new.
There'll be room for all humanity there,
why don't you come and help build it too?

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from Sing Along, released February 20, 2000
Written by Dick Grover, Produced by Bruce Grover, Recorded live in the studio and mastered by Andrew Murdock.

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Dick Grover Los Angeles, California

Raised in New Hampshire, USA, Dick Grover grew up singing with his family and at church. When folk music grew in popularity in the 1960s, Dick was at the heart of the scene in southern New Hampshire, singing songs of unity and protest at gatherings of all kinds. After becoming a Baha'i in 1966, he focused on themes of unity and community building through group singing and continues to do so today. ... more

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