All shall be well
And all shall be well,
And all manner of thing,
Shall be, shall be well
All manner of thing shall be well
All shall be well
And all shall be well,
And all manner of thing,
Shall be, shall be well
All manner of thing shall be well
Often I wondered why in God's great wisdom
The beginning of sin was not hindered
For then all should have been well
If sin had not been, we should all have been clean,
And like to our Lord as he made us
But Jesus said sin is behovely
And all shall be well
All shall be well
And all shall be well,
And all manner of thing,
Shall be, shall be well
All manner of thing shall be well
For our Lord's passion is comfort to us
And so is His blessed will
And all shall be, all shall be well
And all shall be, all shall be well
And all manner of thing
Shall be well.
If I must label what I believe, I think I could best describe it as the faith of a romantic. By romance I don’t mean sentimentality or foolish optimism, but some idealism, an imaginative perception, a pervading sense of tradition, and a strong sense of the adventure of living.
By tradition I mean a sense of unity, not only with the past, but with those who share the past. Shared achievements, shared misfortune, and above all shared sacrifice nourish the virtues that I consider most important; loyalty, tolerance, and understanding.
I know that my faith receives many pitying smiles from the cynic and the intellectual, yet I know of no other that can help me in what I believe to be my most important task, namely to try to secure that in the second half of our mad century the spiritual stature of mankind will approximate to his material and scientific advances.
David Maxwell Fyfe
Interviewed by Ed Morrow on 'What I believe'
Words adapted and set to music by Sue Casson
Recorded by David Chilton at Essential Studios September 2014
Narration Robert Blackmore
Voices Lily Blackmore
Sue Casson
Piano Sue Casson
Edinburgh 2014
Rebecca Morton &
Lily Blackmore
Sue Casson
David Maxwell Fyfe
Ed Morrow
Photos Sarah Morton