Universal Mother - Don Cherry

Brothers, sisters, fathers, and sons, brothers, daughters

The offspring sounds the chord of change

Love and kindness to flow

Compassion soothes all woes

Universal Mother, let yourself go!

The inside is not, the outside it too

See yourself through

Love and kindness soothes all woes

Universal Mother, let yourself flow!

I’d like to tell y’all a story about my grandmother

She’s so sweet we call her «Na-Na»

But her real name is Annie Shelati Marie-Toombs-Fulson-Evans-Green-Nash Nelson

Now my mama’s nam is Daisy McGee

Yeah, we come from th other side of the tracks, Watts

But the sun shines in Watts, there’s smiles in Watts and there’s love in Watts

And I think even now the Dahmer’s in Watts—the Dahmer’s everywhere

What I’ve discovered from this university of life is karma

Yeah, that’s actually it

Trying to work out my karma, in a positive way

But I’ve learned to accept that negative and tried to turn that into positive

Trying to work out the karma