In de jaren 70 luisterde ik graag naar het Amerikaanse duo Seals & Crofts, dat bestond uit Jim Seals (1942-2022) & Dash Crofts. Ze spraken me aan met hun geheel eigen stijl, met allerlei invloeden daarin van o.a. folk, jazz en Perzische muziek (ze waren actief lid van de religieuze Bahai-gemeenschap). En ik genoot van hun prachtige samenzang en grote muzikaliteit.

Hier spelen ze hun lied Year Of Sunday tijdens een optreden in 1974. Het komt van hun gelijknamige album uit 1971.

Year Of Sunday
We all live in the Year of Sunday,
so many things are in store for us.
Oh what a gift to be born in Sunday’s
beautiful light way down here in the dusk.
People return to the tree of oneness,
oh won’t you hurry the Presence is there.
Down on our knees
in the darkness of Sunday,
we’ll find the answers to all of our prayers.

And then everyday will be Sunday,
for you and me.
How I pray!
How I pray!

God made a pact with Abraham,
never leave a man alone.
So Abraham gathered his family,
and brought his people home.

Then came Moses, gave the world a push.
Climbed upon a mountain high.
He got the Ten Commandments
from a burning bush,
and put together his first tribe.

Then came Jesus to Jerusalem,
ridin’ on His shoulder a dove.
The dove upon his shoulder
said he was the One,
the One to teach us how to love!

Mohammed stayed out in the desert sun,
stayed out there just as long as he could.
The Maker gave him water
from the River of Life,
and then he gave us nationhood.

And then time passed,
soon the dark clouds,
came and covered up Mohammed’s sun.
But the young Báb,
down in Persia land,
came to tell us of the Promised One.

Lo the nightingale of paradise
singeth upon the twig
of the Tree of Eternity.
With holy and sweet melodies,
proclaiming to the sincere ones
the glad tidings of the nearness of God.
Bahá’u’lláh! Bahá’u’lláh!

We all live in the Year of Sunday,
so many things are in store for us.
Oh what a gift to be born in Sunday’s
beautiful light way down here in the dusk.