Pray For The Wanderer

Long years ago when I was young and attending Primary school To love the hymns of love and peace I must have been a fool My favourite hymn 'Pray for the wanderer' I sang it every day But now I don't have a God as such for to sing hymns to or pray. Pray for the wanderer if you so wish but do not pray for me And pray for the young mother of the slums she needs your sympathy And pray for the hungry and the downtrod and all of those in poverty And for the displaced and the dispossessed and for the refugee. And pray for the boat people of the middle east from Iraq and Afghanistan Those sent to Nauru by Prime Minister Johnny Howard the so called good christian man In church he sings the hymns with his wife Janette and for the wanderer pray But with those fleeing oppressive regimes the game of votes he play. Pray for the wanderers if you so wish but they need more than your prayers The homeless wanderers of the World pawns of the bigger players From war ravaged Lands and oppressive regimes in their thousands they flee In leaky boats they search for a home and many perish at sea Don't pray for the wanderer he don't need your prayers but pray for Bush and Bin Laden instead For in war and acts of terror innocent blood is shed For every bomb dropped in Afghanistan more refugees will create For to wander in search of a home towards an uncertain fate.