{"id":2408,"date":"2013-05-22T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=2408"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:39:19","slug":"we-open-up-the-gateways","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/2006-2010\/kristina-at-carnegie-hall\/we-open-up-the-gateways\/","title":{"rendered":"We Open Up The Gateways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Ousley, Helen Sj\u00f6holm, Russell Watson, Kevin Odekirk, Louise Pitre, David Hess, Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brusander<\/strong>
\nNow surely you know
\nThat the country you go to
\nIs ruled by the law of the heathen
\nIt’s a land of deceivers!
\nHear me out, Kristina
\nTheir nation is godless
\nTheir prophets are pagans
\nAnd never true believers!<\/p>\n

Robert <\/strong>
\nThey say it’s a country
\nWhere no man is master<\/p>\n

Karl Oskar <\/strong>
\nWhere farmers like me can look forward
\nTo the harvesting season<\/p>\n

Kristina <\/strong>
\nWith a heavy heart
\nI will go with my husband
\nI go for the children
\nAnd that’s my only reason<\/p>\n

Brusander <\/strong>
\nFifty years from today
\nThere will be no America, you know<\/p>\n

Church warden and others <\/strong>
\nYes, America it will have disappeared
\nFifty years from this day<\/p>\n

Brusander<\/strong>
\nJust you mark my words
\nYou’ll be sorry if you go<\/p>\n

Emigrants<\/strong>
\nThere is nothing to add
\nWe are leaving whatever you say<\/p>\n

So come,
\nWe open up the gateway
\nCome,
\nWe’ve started on the quest
\nCome,
\nThe stories from America
\nEncourage and inspire<\/p>\n

Yes come,
\nWe open up the gateway
\nCome,
\nIt opens to the West
\nCome,
\nThe promise of a second chance
\nIs spreading like a fire<\/p>\n

Brusander (to Danjel) <\/strong>
\nThis country you go
\nIs full of pretenders
\nThey bow to their idols
\nAnd all they seek is trifles and treasure<\/p>\n

There, Ulrika, men always
\nYield to desire
\nA land full of lewdness
\nAnd lechery and pleasure<\/p>\n

Danjel <\/strong>
\nI trust in my God
\nHe will lead me to freedom
\nHe’ll light up my path
\nI’m relying on the signs that He shows me<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nI must get away
\nFrom these backstabbing lechers
\nAnd start, good as new,
\nIn a place where no-one knows me<\/p>\n

Brusander <\/strong>
\nFifty years from today
\nYou will see how America will fail<\/p>\n

Church warden and others<\/strong>
\nYes, America, it will have been erased
\nFifty years from this day<\/p>\n

Brusander <\/strong>
\nJust you mark my words
\nYou’ll be sorry if you sail<\/p>\n

Emigrants <\/strong>
\nThere is no more to add
\nWe are leaving whatever you say<\/p>\n

So come,
\nWe open up the gateway
\nCome,
\nWe’ve started on the quest
\nCome,
\nThe stories from America
\nEncourage and inspire<\/p>\n

Yes come,
\nWe open up the gateway
\nCome,
\nIt opens to the West
\nCome,
\nThe promise of a second chance
\nIs spreading like a fire<\/p>\n

It’s a slow and hesitant beginning
\nIn a land of little change
\nHard to summon up the steel
\nTo brave a world unknown<\/p>\n

And the thought of breaking up with home is
\nUnfamiliar and strange
\nYet so many risk their lives
\nAnd everything they own<\/p>\n

So come,
\nWe open up the gateway
\nCome,
\nThe mighty river flows
\nCome,
\nThe promise of a better life
\nHas set a world in motion<\/p>\n

Yes come,
\nWe open up the gateway
\nCome,
\nThe mighty river grows
\nCome,
\nThe tide has turned and
\ntime has come to reach across the ocean<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2010 Mono Music AB <\/em><\/p>\n

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