Neville Livingston - Hallelujah time

Hear the children crying
but I know they're not crying in vain
now the times are changing
love buds come to bloom again


Smelling the air when sprinkled by raindrops
reminds us of youthful days
but now it's not rain that waters the cane crops
but the sweat from man's brow
the substance from our spine
we got to keep on living
living on borrowed time


Hallelujah Time
as you can hear the children singing
Hallelujah Time
as they go singing by and by
Hallelujah Time
ooh, hallelujah singing in the morning
Hallelujah Time
let them sing don't make them cry


Over rocks and mountains
the sheep are scattered all around
over hills and valleys
they're everywhere to be found


But though we bear our burdens now
all aflictions got to end somehow
from swinging the hammer
to pulling the plough


Why won't you let us be to live harmony
we'd like to be free like birds in a tree