fdS3-5.

Be Frugal/Vacation?/Urgency

The tune comes from Japan: Tanko Bushi (aka Coal Mine Song).
I found ways to fit several of my poems to it, but I sing only the first one (Be Frugal) here.
Good luck with the rest!

fdS3. Be frugal! O so frugal when it come your turn to ta-ake.
But be prodigal when it's gi-iving time.
Minimize all of your taking from life.
Be quite frugal & have hope.
But maximize all of your giving:
Give till nobody hurts on this great globe!

fdS4. Never take a, a vacation. Never take even one vacation from
the building u-up of a great world community.
Even when your on a vacation sweet,
use your time & effort wholly
and earth's resources very wisely
to set each&every heart in this world free!

fdS5. Due to the urgency of the emergency-y, o yes,
It would truly be ni-ice, a-at lon-ong last,
to urge us to emerge fro-om ease
to-o squeeze & sacrifice fast!
To squeeze in much more, much more service
and to sacrifice pretentious softness!

What is a CRISIS? A CRISIS is a DANGER that contains an OPPORTUNITY!

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