By Jim Burklo
(Use freely, with attribution)
Tune: O Waly Waly (Welsh folk tune) (#362 New Century Hymnal)
-- also known as The Water Is Wide (listen to James Taylor's performance of it)
Alternative tune: "Jerusalem" - an unofficial anthem of England
For deeper love we share the bread
I won’t be full till all are fed
Till every soul has home and bed
The rest of us can’t move ahead
For deeper love we share the wine
I cannot taste the love divine
Till every soul has walked the line
And you’ve had yours as I’ve had mine
Now Mary sings her birthing song
Till every voice can sing along
And voices weak will rise up strong
Her choir is one where all belong
No one’s saved till all are healed
As Jesus on the Mount revealed
Your life and mine forever sealed
Just like the lilies of the field
We follow where the Christ has led
To table that for all is spread
And no one’s sitting at the head
But deeper love in wine and bread