All God's Quakers got a place on a Committee

RantWoman was part of the authoring process for the following masterpiece performed at Community Night for the NPYM Annual Session. RantWoman means for this item to enjoy Creative Commons license but RantWoman is unclear how to handle the issue of what tune this is to be sung to. Therefore readers are to guess...


All God’s Quakers got a place on a committee
We don’t care if you’re plain or pretty
You have to be a member for Worship and Ministry
But everybody’s welcome on Hospitality

Religious Education is a good one too
‘cause all our children really need you.
Oversight’s got a lot of clearness to see to
And Building and Grounds has plenty to do.

Our homeless neighbors share our worship space
And provide our Meeting with a measure of grace
Social concerns proceed apace
And the dishwashing tends to itself—NOT!

Please take pity on the Finance Committee
They beg for money and they hardly get any.
We value all our other seventeen committees
But nobody talks to Nominating.

So we all got together for a Year of Discernment.
It lasted 18 months and it left us in ferment
We talked about our talents and commitments and souls
And how to share our gifts and time and anything we got now

All our Friends got a place in our Meeting
From setting out chairs to standing and greeting.
Christian and Jew and Buddhist and Pagan
And all of our potlucks have options that are vegan.



PS. Special thanks to Stasa over at Musings of A Quaker Witch for the info that the tune is by Bill Staines , The tune of course is probably NOT under creative commons license.