Your holy hearsay is not evidence. Give me the good news in… - Sydney Carter

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Your holy hearsay is not evidence. Give me the good news in the present tense. What happened nineteen hundred years ago May not have happened. How am I to know? So shut your Bibles up and show me how The Christ you talk about Is living now.

Sydney Carter

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Sydney Carter (6 May 1915 – 13 March 2004) was an English Quaker poet and songwriter.

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Alternative Names: Sydney Bertram Carter

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They are songs which can be sung in a Christian context, but they all had to mean something to me because I was often on the edge of not believing. The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

Loud are the bells of Norwich and the people come and go. Here by the tower of Julian, I tell them what I know.

They buried my body And they thought I'd gone, But I am the Dance, And I still go on.

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