Suggested Tune NETTLETON (8.7.8.7.D.) by Asahel Nettleton [click on tune name to play midi]

1. Where is God, when bullets fly and
people die and orphans cry?
Where, oh where, oh God, where are you?
Answer this, and tell us why.
Why will you not stop the bullets,
jam the guns and damn the thugs?
Why will you not shield your servants?
Use your power to make us love!

2. Precious children, my beloved,
know my love now, look and see;
in my crying and my dying,
find your answers here in me.
Love is not by power established
but where love is freely shared
Love becomes the power to vanquish
every evil - even death!

3. Precious children, my dear servants,
I am with you - dwell in me;
In your crying - even dying -
where you are, there I will be.
So when people cry in anguish:
"Where is God?" Oh won't you be
right there for them, right there for me?
Where there's love - there I will be.