It's the Springs

This is a hymn about the interconnect nature of everything and everyone in the world. 

It was written by Richard Tysoe (details to be advised), and published in Come and Praise 2, in 1989, and then The Complete Come and Praise, Education Publishers, Pearson Education Group, England in 1990.

The song is set to an unnamed tune, also by Tysoe. This has a 2/2 time signature. In the key of F, the first few notes of the melody are C D / F_ F F A /  G F  D E  /  F F_ F D / C  with accompanying chords F / Bb / F  / Bb / C7.   No sources of sheet music have been found, apart from The Complete Come and Praise.

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Children's choir with band

Lyrics

The lyrics are copyright, although the song is now out-of-print.   The are shown here at the request of a member of Richard Tysoe's family.

1. It's the springs up in the mountains make the rivers of the plain
That bring water to the cities as they seek the sea again,
And the rivers fill the oceans and the oceans make the rain,
By the winds blowing over one world.

Chorus:
And a man becomes a neighbour or a brother or a friend,
When the one-ness of the world you understand.
And the East for your neighbour is another neighbour’s West.
It depends upon just where you stand.

2. There are people in the mountains and the valleys down below,
There are people in the tropics, there are people in the snow,
Some are happy, some are homeless folk who have no place to go,
But we all have to live in one world

3. There are workers for their wages out in field and factory,
There are fishers for their food supply in boats upon the sea,
There are people still imprisoned in the cage of poverty,
As we labour for life in one world.

4. As the sun lights up the morning, and another day is found,
It’s a gift to all that’s living, that the world still spins around,
And the night is still the day but seen the other way around,
As the sun shines upon this one world.

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KEEP IN CASE ORIGINAL IS REMOVED, BUT DO NOT DISPLAY 1. It's the springs up in the mountains make the rivers of the plain
That bring water to the cities as they seek the sea again,
And the rivers fill the oceans and the oceans make the rain,
By the winds blowing over one world.

Chorus:
And a man becomes a neighbour or a brother or a friend,
When the one-ness of the world you understand.
And the East for your neighbour is another neighbour’s West.
It depends upon just where you stand.

2. There are people in the mountains and the valleys down below,
There are people in the tropics, there are people in the snow,
Some are happy, some are homeless folk who have no place to go,
But we all have to live in one world

3. There are workers for their wages out in field and factory,
There are fishers for their food supply in boats upon the sea,
There are people still imprisoned in the cage of poverty,
As we labour for life in one world.

4. As the sun lights up the morning, and another day is found,
It’s a gift to all that’s living, that the world still spins around,
And the night is still the day but seen the other way around,
As the sun shines upon this one world.