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Be Welcome At My Table

good people of good faith, I do one and all bid you enter
the banquet is laid out with fine sweetmeats for everyone to share
I wish you good health, so with your neighbour generously enjoy of the fayre

if tolerance be part of your faith, whatever be its label
if tolerance be part of your faith, be welcome at my table
if you be wise, and if your beliefs distinguish fact from fable
if common-sense informs your beliefs, be welcome at my table

of everything partake, of wine and viands there is plenty
be seated by neighbours and sate yourselves before you yet depart
there's more than enough to satisfy the emptiest pate and hungriest heart

if tolerance be part of your faith, whatever be its label
if tolerance be part of your faith, be welcome at my table
if you be wise, and if your beliefs distinguish fact from fable
if common-sense informs your beliefs, be welcome at my table

begin we with a prayer for bounty from above
rejoice to see and share with me the blessed food of love

there's fullness to the brim, pass round and drain the bowl
in freedom think, together drink for goodness of the soul

pile high upon your plate the food of a shared understanding
to feed very well in abundance the most mighty to the least
let none go without, and every stomach and every heart be full at the feast

if tolerance be part of your faith, whatever be its label
if tolerance be part of your faith, be welcome at my table
if you be wise, and if your beliefs distinguish fact from fable

if common-sense informs your beliefs, be welcome at my table
if tolerance be part of your faith, whatever be its label
if tolerance be part of your faith, be welcome at my table

yeah

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