Performed on new/7/9\r
Conductor：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝\r
Choral arrangement：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝\r
Orchestra arrangement：Koji Sakurai 櫻井弘二\r
Composer：Stephen Schwarz\r
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e-mail：ntuchorus@hotmail.com\r
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(Hebrew slaves)\r
Mud! Sand! Water! Straw!\r
(Egyptian guards)\r
Faster!\r
(Hebrew slaves)\r
Mud! And lift! Sand! And pull\r
Water! And raise up! Straw!\r
(Egyptian guards)\r
Faster!\r
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(Hebrew slaves)\r
With the sting of the whip on my shoulder,\r
With the salt of my sweat on my brow.\r
Elohim, God on high,\r
Can you hear your people cry?\r
Help us now, this dark hour.\r
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Deliver us. Hear our call.\r
Deliver us. Lord of all, remember us,\r
Here in this burning sand.\r
Deliver us.\r
Theres a land you promised us.\r
Deliver us to the promised land.\r
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(Moses mother)\r
ילדי הטוב והרך　　　　　Yaldi hatov ve harach\r
אל תירא ואל תפחד　　　　　Al tira ve al tifchad\r
My son, I have nothing I can give\r
But this chance that you may live.\r
I pray well meet again,\r
If He will deliver us.\r
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(Hebrew slaves)\r
Hear our prayer.\r
Deliver us from despair.\r
These years of slavery grow\r
Too cruel to stand.\r
Deliver us.\r
Theres a land you promised us.\r
Deliver us out of bondage and\r
Deliver us to the promised land\r
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(Moses mother)\r
Hush now, my baby\r
Be still, love, dont cry.\r
Sleep as youre rocked by the stream.\r
Sleep and remember my last lullaby,\r
So Ill be with you when you dream.\r
River, o river, flow gently for me,\r
Such precious cargo you bear.\r
Do you know somewhere he can live free?\r
River, deliver him there.\r
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(Moses sister)\r
Brother, youre safe now\r
And safe may you stay,\r
For I have a prayer just for you,\r
Grow, baby brother,\r
Come back someday.\r
Come and deliver us too.\r
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(Hebrew slaves)\r
Deliver us\r
Send a sheperd to sheperd us\r
And deliver us to the promised land.