Players:
Jim Gawne - Mandolin
Mike Ward - Guitar & Harmony Vocals
Bob Ryan - Guitar & Lead Vocals
Recorded live-to-cassette in 1981 at "Brock and Friends Coffeehouse" in Kelowna BC Canada
(LYRICS)
Words by Bob Ryan
Music by Ryan and Ward (c)1980
Stone walls rising above the sea
A sea-gate to wonders beyond compare
Waves bring pilgrims from lands afar
Come one, come all immigrants!
To the new land of heart and soul
Immigration from the land of old
We’ll be raising ourselves above
the stories of past endeavours
That have now ground to a halt
in this timeless march of man
Time to hear from the voice of guidance
ringing from the heights above
Causing change in this world of man
leaving the old behind
Cities aglow with globes of light
Centres of justice and life
Co-ordinating the immigration
From old ideals to the realities of life
See this new land is the glad refrain
Manifest now on this earthly plane
Its been growing inside the
womb of the world for aeons
Like a child in the womb
of his mother’s sweet love
‘Til at last it appears in the state
of the utmost perfection
A new land where mankind
will live in harmony
Immigrants
Migration just doesn't take place when someone moves form one physical location to another. It can also refer to a permanent journey taken from one inner state to another, from one paradigm to another. Where world-view, feelings and perceptions shift in a fundamental way. So that, the world is a new world, the place we are standing is a new place....
