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The Children of the Dust by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) is a song for charity to help provide clean drinking water to the orphaned children of the village of Kikuhe in Tanzania by the charity Zerf Productions (charity No. 889243853RR0001) with all proceeds from the song going to help the children.
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Download now on iTunes HERE on Amazon HERE and on Google Play HERE.
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Visit the Zerf Productions charity website HERE where you can also make a direct donation. You can e-mail Zerf Productions for more information at zerf@sympatico.ca.
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Please visit The Children of the Dust charity shop to help too HERE
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Children of the Dust Lyrics
For how long can we close our eyes
As another child dies?
For how long can we turn away
And don’t do and don’t say?
In a far away land
That is hostile to man
Children are crying in the dust
Children are dying in the dust
Children are buried in the dust
For a lack of clean water
So please don’t turn away
No, don’t you turn away
Help them live another day
Please help them live another day
All they need is clean water
So much sorrow, so much sorrow
But if you’d care
They will see tomorrow
For how long can we close our eyes
As another child dies?
For how long can we turn away
And don’t do and don’t say?
Thousand’s silently die
Can you hear their last cries?
They are children without a voice
Their lives in pain they have no choice
No they have nothing to rejoice
Just give them clean water
I’m saying for Christs sake
When will the world awake?
They drink from a polluted well
Where cholera and poison dwells
Their lives are just a living hell
Help them drink clean water
So please don’t turn away
No, don’t you turn away
Help them live another day
Please help them live another day
All they need is water
Just give them clean water
So please don’t turn away
No, don’t you turn away
Help them live another day
Please help them live another day
All they need is water
Just give them clean water
Paul Robert Thomas
7 comments
Joshua De La Rosa
I like what you are doing by raising awareness with your music. It’s very thoughtful and the Christian thing to do. Respect man!!!
Paul Robert Thomas
Cheers, that’s very kind of you, thank you Joshua👍🎧😊😘!
Ray du Boc Ali
The Children of The Dust (Charity Single) is the tune, Great Job, One World 1 Love
Paul Robert Thomas
Thanks so much Ray:)!
Tedmiami
I have bought a copy because it is for Charity and I hope it helps. The words are descriptive and poignant but the delivery is more like a happy pop song not a protest style song which I would have preferred. I really don’t like this style and it is unlikely I will be playing it again but I am happy to add my few pence to the pot. My apologies to the singers and musicians, you all played and sung well I just don’t think this style of song suits the purpose for which it was made. I wish you all the very best with the Charity and hope others buy the song whether because they like it or because they wish to help.
Best regards
Paul Robert Thomas
Dear Tedmiami,
Firstly, let me thank you on behalf of everyone involved with this charity project and give our sincere thanks for downloading a copy of our charity single.
I appreciate your views on the apparent perceived joyfulness of the song but, our composer, musician and vocalist is of African origin and wanted to give the song an authentic African feel (whereas ‘We Are The World’s feel was that of a studio) and we tried to incorporate this is this song and as you heard, the words convey the message that we hope resounds with listeners to the song. We felt that making a morbid sounding song musically would not attract listeners and after all, the whole point is to get people to actually listen to the song and to understand the message that children are dying through lack of clean drinking water and that they can help to relieve their misery if they’d care to. We hope soon to have the children themselves sing the song on video from their village for the world to see them and understand their plight.
Thank you again Tedmiami and if you look I’m sure you’ll find a number of ‘protest’ songs on our site, perhaps you’d enjoy ‘Sleep Walking Through The Mist’ at https://www.paullyrics.com/album/holy-land-revisited/sleep-walking-through-the-mist from our album ‘Holy Land Revisited’ at https://www.paullyrics.com/album/holy-land-revisited, wishing you all the best, Paul
Reality The First
Real good song ! God Bless !💯
Reality The First