A Place in the Choir
A fantastic, catchy little tune – “All God’s Creatures Got a Place in the Choir!” This is also Shepherding All God’s Creatures Feature Song!
Where have all the lions gone?
Words by Rev Lynne Chitty; Music by Kerst
Where have all the lions gone, it seems just yesterday
When roaring could be heard at dusk and cubs were free to play
Where have all the lions gone, tell me do you know
Surely they’ve not all been killed, oh tell me it’s not so
Surely they’ve not all been killed, oh tell me it’s not so
The plains have all grown silent, shots are the only sound
Majestic beasts that loved to roam lie dead upon the ground
With trophy hunters smiling, delighted at their kill
Shooting drugged canned lions for pleasure and at will
(chorus)
Blood is on the hunters hands, but it is on ours too
If we don’t speak out in protest and do all we can do
There’s just too many people taking lands that lions need
We have to find an answer to man’s desires and greed
(chorus)
Earth is home to everyone, to every creature too
We’re entrusted with their welfare and with their future too
We can all live together, John and Christian* showed us how
Love is universal and love is needed now
(chorus)
*I am told by the author, Lynne Chitty, that “John and Christian” refers to the YouTube video above, where John and Ace are reunited with Christian the lion they had rescued by purchasing it from Herrod’s where it was for sale, living in a small cramped cage all alone. They eventually reintroduced him back into the wild; watch the story as they go to Africa and are reunited – very moving!