Exodus (This Land Is Mine)

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   One, with God, is always in the majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

-          Thomas B. Reed, 1839-1902.

   I have included this, the musical score to the movie-classic Exodus, because of its memorable impact on movie-audiences (and myself) when the film reached the public at the time of its release in 1961.  I feel that, regardless of its sometimes rather ‘secular’ vibe, that it’s a beautiful (spiritual) song worthy of remembrance.  The musical score was by composer Ernest Gold (1960) and the words added by Pat Boone (1961).

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Exodus (This Land Is Mine)

(Musical Score [1960]: Ernest Gold/Lyrics [1961]: Pat Boone)

This land is mine, God gave this land to me,

This brave and ancient land to me.

And when the morning sun,

Reveals its hills and plain,

Then I see a land where children can run free.

So take my land, and walk this land with me,

And walk this lovely land with me.

Though I am just a man,

When you are by my side,

With the help of God I know I can be strong.

To make this land our home,

If I must fight, to make this land our own.

Until I die, this land is mine.

Piet Stassen

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Bibliography

1.  Aliyah. ‘Exodus’ (‘This Land Is Mine’). Accessed At <http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/Aliyah-020-Exodus-Lyrics.html> [online] 2013.

2.  LastFm. 'Ernest Gold'. Accessed At <http://www.lastfm.es/music/Ernest+Gold> [online] 2013.

3.  Wikipedia. 'Pat Boone'. Accessed At <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone> [online] 2013.