“The Spirit Lives” - Season’s Greetings to Christians worldwide by Roy Harper, courtesy Mancinblack
“Where once were men but now are sheep
- a fiction and far cry,
From planet Earth’s proud animal
- who would be you and I
Alas, our forebears drank the cup of poisoned alibi
And made excuses far and wide,
And made God in the sky.
This boogaloo’s now round the world
- bad trips for everyone.
No more the man of paradise
Or the Celt of Albion
They queue like burning moths to spread
- the all time viscous lie
You Christians destroyed our tribe
- I’ll fight you till I die….”
“The Spirit Lives” - Roy Harper
“I can see no reason at all to change these lyrics” - Mancinblack
The Spirit Lives, by 
Posted by mancinblack on Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:38 | #
Why, thank you, Daniel, that’s the nicest Solstice gift anyone has ever given me and as a fellow manc by birth Roy would probably feel the same. I’ve often wondered why, given that Mancunia (as I’m inclined to call it) being the cradle of the Industrial Revolution was nonetheless so green and well, Pagan, at heart. The City was, after all the birthplace of Alexandrian Wicca, the only religion Britain has given the world. Perhaps it was because the residents had stared into the eyes of the industrial beast devouring them and said “Hang on. There’s more to life than this and what the vicar down the road is telling us”. Anyhow, those are the kind of thoughts that might well occupy the mind of an older gent, such as myself, when we can’t sleep at night. Not that I’m as old as Harper is here (he’s in his seventies, I reckon) but it’s a lovely song, particularly for this time of year.
The Green Man….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx93anilVDQ