BLESSED [ adult contemporary, Americana, folk, pop ] Click Here for Music Video of this song Click Here for Free Song Download                  Blessed are the children                  The hope and future of our land                  May their hearts be filled with laughter and freedom's light                  Forbid them not in their youth                  To learn the words of wisdom and truth                  For they are precious, oh so precious, in God's sight                  Blessed are each boy and girl                  The hope and future of our world                  And in our hearts, we're all just children, anyway                  To everything there is a season, there's a purpose and a reason                  To believe there will be peace on earth, someday                  So hold your head up high and keep your eyes on the prize                  And one day soon, free at last, we shall overcome                  Blessed are God's children                  Red, brown, yellow, black and white                  So, ask, look and knock and you will find                  Even in our darkest hour                  There is hope and there is power                  And where there's love, there is true peace of mind                  Blessed, oh blessed, are the children * * For Rosa Parks, who's coffin lying in honor in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington D.C., containing a poor African-American female seamstress born in the deep South, represents perhaps the very greatest achievement of what is called the "American Experience".             Copyright © by Richard Aberdeen ASCAP Copyright © by Freedom Tracks Music ASCAP          No part of this material may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from publisher. Inquiries:  Freedom Tracks Records.  Essays entitled Revolution and Revolution -- Side B are open copyright and may be reproduced or utilized as often as one likes.