Elton John - Border Song (The Very Best Of Elton John)
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin (last verse by Elton John)
Available on the album Elton John
Holy Moses I have been removed
I have seen the spectre he has been here too
Distant cousin from down the line
Brand of people who ain't my kind
Holy Moses I have been removed
Holy Moses I have been deceived
Now the wind has changed direction and I'll have to leave
Won't you please excuse my frankness but it's not my cup of tea
Holy Moses I have been deceived
I'm going back to the border
Where my affairs, my affairs ain't abused
I can't take any more bad water
I've been poisoned from my head down to my shoes
Holy Moses I have been deceived
Holy Moses let us live in peace
Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease
There's a man over there what's his colour I don't care
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
Elton John - Border Song (03:33)
Earliest surviving performance video of Elton
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This is actually a song condeming racism as you can hear part of the lyrics at the end of the song it says "There's a man over there what's his colour I don't care
He's my brother let us live in peace"
And I don't think this song is a gospel at all don't forget in the Bilble Moses condemed homosexuality and then regarding Elton.........
Judge yourself
After all this is one of Elton John's best songs
Autor: vanlatino
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this is about the situation in palestine. Jews and Arabs are believed to be distant cousins, both of whom desended from abraham. and when the jews first settled the Arabs were decieved into believing that they came in peace. but they were decieved and removed from their land. also, he swears by holy moses, which makes no sence in any other context. I believe he said that was what the song was talking about but there was such a backlash that he no longer admits it.
Autor: ironyandinjustic
3
Love this song just because it's a great song.
Autor: gasgas270
4
i'm a racist like flapjackrabbit!
Autor: greeniem
5
@vanlatino A gospel isn't proprietarily Christian music, but the more precise term for it would be Negro Spiritual, like the songs African slaves would sing/during the Civil Rights Movement, a la "Free at Last," "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "We Shall Overcome," "Let My People Go" (yes, the last one is about Hebrews in Egypt, but the struggle is similar)
As for your other statements, condemning racism and giving homophobia a pass is a double standard and a bit hypocritical, don't you think?
Autor: flapjackrabbit
6
lol truth.
Autor: MaxwellsAttourne
7
@flapjackrabbit
Please donot misunderstood me at any time I tried to say something negative at all please accept my apologies if you thought that way, indeed I am against racism as myself have been a victim of racism here in Vancouver just for being a Latino and since my teenage years I like Elton John's music.