Yuendumu Wake God Up Song

YUENDUMU: WAKE GOD UP SONG

- (for the children, in Yuendumu)


O God shake them eyelids
Crack those ears wide open
Morning's hear. Wake up!

Morning's come and to hear
We are being here for you
Waiting for you

Can you hear this morning?
Can you hear our voices?
Lift your head and listen!

Will you open your eyes
Will you cup your ear?
Hear, here we are!

Sun rises up and where are you?
Light puts out the darkness
Wake up like the sun.

O God, come on, shake up
Rattle your hear in us, fire
Your mind as new life in us.


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- Sunday, July 1995 Yuendumu, written camped around cooking fires in inter-gated open backyards of Matthew (later Liam) Campbell, recreation-wallah, Colin & Merryn Smith,m with Ben, Talitha and Cailan, teacher-wallahs, and Darryl ? and Andrew Cowan, teacher-wallahs, where we found rest, welcome, and a sense of fellow-travelling as we got to be with desert blackfellows for a change, and lots of easily-spent time with the Yuendumu children who mobbed us.