Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Standing on the Shoulders

This blog was originally posted on the Children's Music Network blog in March of 2015. Let's Celebrate!     Thanks CMN!



STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS

by Joyce Johnson Rouse


March is Women’s History month, and member Joyce Rouse of Earth Mama has recently published a new video celebrating heroic women of history.


STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS

by Joyce Johnson Rouse

I am standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before me

I am stronger for their courage, I am wiser for their words

I am lifted by their longing for a fair and brighter future

I am grateful for their vision, for their toiling on this Earth
We are standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before us
They are saints and they are humans, they are angels, they are friends
We can see beyond the struggles and the troubles and the challenge
When we know that by our efforts things will be better in the end
They lift me higher than I could ever fly
Carrying my burdens away
I imagine our world if they hadn’t tried
We wouldn’t be here celebrating today
I am standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before me
I am honored by their passion for our liberty
I will stand a little taller, I will work a little longer
And my shoulders will be there to hold the ones who follow me
They lift me higher than I could ever fly
Carrying my burdens away
I imagine our world if they hadn’t tried
We wouldn’t be so very blessed today
I am standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before me
I am honored by their passion for our liberty
I will stand a little taller, I will work a little longer
And my shoulders will be there to hold the ones who follow me
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