"What Color Is God's Skin?"-lyrics, music?

[Paul M. Gifford]

In article <3ta218$i...@chaos.dac.neu.edu> bno...@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Becky Norum) writes:
>From: bno...@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Becky Norum)
>Subject: "What Color Is God's Skin?"-lyrics, music?
>Date: 4 Jul 1995 00:29:28 GMT

>I am hoping that someone can point me to a site or book that contains
>the lyrics and music for the song "What Color is God's Skin?". I don't
>even know if that is the title... I just remember hearing it at an Up
>With People show years ago... but I've never heard it anywhere else, so
>I don't even know where to start looking ;)

Here's the chorus:

What color is God's skin?
What color is God's skin?
Is it black, brown, yellow,
Is it green or white?
Every man's the same in the Good Lord's sight.

Then there's "Up With People" ---

Up, up, with people,
People wherever you go,
Up, up, with people,
There the best kind of folks we know.

If more people were for people,
All people everywhere,
There'd be a lot less people to worry about,
And a lot more people who care.

Also:

Freedom isn't free, freedom isn't free,
You gotta pay a price,
You gotta sacrifice,
For your liberty.

This group grew out of Moral Re-Armament, a rather mysterious postwar
anti-Communist group centered in Switzerland and Mackinac Island, Michigan
(until about 1966). It sponsored a singing group, using guitars and drums,
with clean-cut teens singing the above songs. I think its success was largely
due to all the young, long-haired protesters filling the air waves making
older people sick to their stomachs. The musical director, if I recall
correctly, was Thurlow Spurr, later of Thurlow Spurr and the Spurrlows and
even later musical director of the PTL Singers and Orchestra (Jim & Tammy's
show).

Paul Gifford

[Richard Sheir]

: This group grew out of Moral Re-Armament, a rather mysterious postwar

: anti-Communist group centered in Switzerland and Mackinac Island, Michigan
: (until about 1966). It sponsored a singing group, using guitars and drums,
: with clean-cut teens singing the above songs. I think its success was largely
: due to all the young, long-haired protesters filling the air waves making
: older people sick to their stomachs. The musical director, if I recall
: correctly, was Thurlow Spurr, later of Thurlow Spurr and the Spurrlows and
: even later musical director of the PTL Singers and Orchestra (Jim & Tammy's
: show).

Let us not forget the Up With People was part of one of the great kitsch
traditions in American society--- they were the half time entertainment at
one of the Super Bowls. That's something that mere folkies could never
even dream of... even in their most hung over moments.....
--
Richard