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Let's Make Peace
Hymn composed by
Kharma AmosContextual information
“Let’s Make Peace” is a call and response song written for an interfaith service held in Brunswick, ME on February 28, 2024, entitled ”Our Hearts Are Breaking: A service in solidarity with the suffering in the Middle East.” The song is intended to be taught and sung by rote. Great liberties can be taken by the leader of this song, no matter what.
“Let’s Make Peace” is a call and response song written for an interfaith service held in Brunswick, ME on February 28, 2024, entitled ”Our Hearts Are Breaking: A service in solidarity with the suffering in the Middle East.” The song is intended to be taught and sung by rote. Great liberties can be taken by the leader of this song, no matter what.
Tune Name
[Let's Make Peace]
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10.9.10.9
Song Composer
Kharma AmosHymn Arranger
Composer Background information
Kharma Amos (she/her) is an active Unitarian Universalist minister and a retired minister with Metropolitan Community Churches. She has enjoyed a life of music-making—including the four-part harmonies she learned as a child from her grandmother, gospel in the Black church tradition, contemporary praise music, traditional choirs, jazz bands, street (protest) music, and drumming and chanting under the stars.
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Lyricist Background information
Kharma Amos (she/her) is an active Unitarian Universalist minister and a retired minister with Metropolitan Community Churches. She has enjoyed a life of music-making—including the four-part harmonies she learned as a child from her grandmother, gospel in the Black church tradition, contemporary praise music, traditional choirs, jazz bands, street (protest) music, and drumming and chanting under the stars.
Arranger Background information
Arranger Website LinkLyrics
Let us go in peace.
May our hearts remain open.
May the words we speak
Do no harm.
Let us lay aside
All hate and division.
Let us open wide
Arms of love.
Would you take my hand?
Let’s be here in these moments.
And across the land
Let’s make peace.
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