When A Child Is Born

When a Child Is Born - Brook Benton

A ray of hope

Flickers in the sky

A tiny star

Lights up way up high

All across the land

Dawns a brand-new morn

This comes to past

When a child is born

A silent wish

Sails the seven seas

The winds of change

Whisper in the trees

And the walls of doubt

Crumble tost and torn

This comes to pass

When a child is born

A rosy hue

Settles all around

You've got the feel

You're on solid ground

For a spell of two

No one seems forlorn

This comes to past

When a child is born

And all of this happens

Because the world is waiting

Waiting for one child

Black white yellow

No one knows

But one child who will grow up

And turn tears to laughter

Hate to love

War to peace

And everyone to everyone's neighbor

And misery and suffering

Will be words to be forgotten

Forever

It's all a dream

And illusion now

It must come true

Sometime soon somehow

All across the land

Dawns a brand-new morn

This comes to past

When a child is born

This comes to past

When a child is born

Is born