Name: If (Be A Man My Son)
Duration: P00H06M53S
Description: I wrote this one using a poem from Rudyard Kipling of the same title.

If (Be A Man My Son)

from Concert In Pretoria, South Africa by Namrock

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I wrote this one using a poem from Rudyard Kipling of the same title.

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IF (BE A MAN MY SON)
Words by Rudyard Kipling
Music by Titiksava-Karunika dasa

Intro
Verse 1:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
And make allowance for their doubting too
Bridge:
If you can dream and not make drams your master
If you can think and not think you're the one
Chorus:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With 60 seconds worth of distance run
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it
And which is more, you'll be a man my son
Intro***
Verse 3:
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken
And stoop to build them up with worn out tools

Chorus***
Instrumental
Verse 4:
If you can talk with crowds and keep you virtue
Or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you, but none to much
Chorus***
Mantra Tag
Final Chorus
____________________________________________________________________
Intro: |:Em C D :| (x2)
Verses: |: Em C D :|(x2) Bm7 Em C D
Bridge: |: Em C D :| (x2)
Chorus: C G Am G C D C G D C B7 Em
Instrumental: |: Em C D :| (x8)
Mantra Tag: |: Em C D :| (x8) |: Em D C D :| (x3) Em D C B
Final Chorus: C G Am C B7 Em C B7 Em C B7 A E

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from Concert In Pretoria, South Africa, released March 28, 2014

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Namrock San Diego, California

Namrock plays music with uplifting lyrics and also employs the use of sacred mantras. Mantras are used to elevate the consciousness of the listener. Sacred sound vibration in a rock candy coated package. Hari Bol!

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