(published in the UN Special, September 1991,
sung at the concert of Chic Street Man
at the Grand Casino of Geneva, Monday 17 February 1992)

Free Human Rights

Open your fist,
Give me your hand.
Free human rights,
Let the spirit fly.

Enough of the fist,
Reach out with your hand.
Free human righs
Free them in every land.

Open your hand
And let the spirit fly
Open your heart
And let it be free.

Sing it out loud
And sing it clear,
Sing it as you feel
And as your hear.

Free the rights of man,
Free them for us all.
Free them in the north
Free them in the south.

Free them in the cities
Free them on the open land.
Free them in the first world,
In the second and the third.

The fourth world needs a bed:
Yes the homeless must be heard.
Free them for the sick,
for the healthy free them too.

Free them for the poor
the rich will benefit as well.
Free them for the weak
The strong will benefit as well.

Open your fist,
Stretch forth your hand
to touch and to feel
Perhaps to understand.

Fists are for pounding,
Enough of force, enough of blows.
Hands are for loving
Where tenderness flows.

Heart for the sick,
Disabled, forlorn,
Whom many ignore
Some even would scorn.

Open your fist
Give me your hand.
Open your heart
Free human rights.