Winterfolk (live from Winterfolk 27)
Words and music by Tom May, copyright 2013
©Blue Vignette Music, ASCAP

chorus:
Hello Old Friends, welcome in from the rain and the snow
We have gathered here together for those outside we do not know
By this kindness to our brothers we admit we too are cold
Feel the fires of injustice, sing the songs of Winterfolk

1. Amidst the Douglas fir and cascades gleaming white
There’s a woman wrapped in blankets, asleep in Portland town tonight
Her mansion is a doorway the bottle her only friend
She dreams of a warm soft bed and a hot meal once again

repeat chorus

2. We are all just short footsteps away
From calamity and heartbreak and the price we would have to pay
So let those without a sin cast the first sharpened stone
Let the rest of us resolve to make the homeless feel less alone

repeat chorus

3. As long as one is hungry, without a home
Each of us is poorer, when the least fortunate have none
There but for fortune, on the streets we too could be
Let us pledge here tonight, to end this poverty

repeat chorus