Rani Arbo &
daisy mayhem

Will Your House Be Blessed?

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J.B. Spencer (Beann Adair Music)

We learned this from Harry Manx, as he sang it to a packed hillside at Blissfest in Michigan (one of our favorite festivals). We have been singing it for years, but only recently found out that its author is the late John B. Spencer, English crime fiction writer and bluesman. Here’s a Youtube posting of him singing it (including the last verse, which we didn’t know existed!). — RA

Let it go, let it go, let it go go go
Let your sword of vengeance rest
Do the blind lead the blind, don’t be cruel to be kind
Only then will your house be blessed

Offer prayer, offer prayer, offer sweet sweet prayer
To your uninvited guest
Won’t you give him the right to be welcome through the night
Only then will your house be blessed

Turn your cheek, turn your cheek, turn your other cheek
May your mercy manifest
When the hawk and the dove fly in circles round your love
Only then will your house be blessed

Let it go, let it go, let it go go go
Let your sword of vengeance rest
Do the blind lead the blind, don’t be cruel to be kind
Only then will your house be blessed