Joan Baez - Be Not Too Hard [HD]+

Joan Baez sings 'Be Not Too Hard' from her 1967 Vanguard album 'Joan'. The song is from a poem by Christopher Logue with music by Donovan Leitch. The song lyrics are listed below along with some notes on Logue.

Note: This is a redo of the earlier video for this song with a number of new images and the lyrics not included in the video.

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Be Not Too Hard - Joan Baez

Be not too hard for life is short
And nothing is given to man
Be not too hard when he's sold or bought
For he must manage as best he can

Be not too hard when he blindly dies
Fighting for things he does not own
And be not too hard when he tells lies
Or if his heart is sometimes like a stone

Be not too hard for soon he'll die
Often no wiser than he began
Be not too hard for life is short
And nothing is given to man

Be not too hard for life is short
And nothing is given to man
Be not too hard when he's sold or bought
For he must manage as best he can

Be not too hard when he blindly dies
Fighting for things he does not own
Be not too hard when he tells lies
Or if his heart is sometimes like a stone

Be not too hard for soon he'll die
Often no wiser than he began
Be not too hard for life is short
And nothing is given to man
And nothing is given to man

Songwriters: Christopher Logue (Lyrics), Donovan Leitch (Music)
© Peermusic Publishing
[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011) was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival and a pacifist. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and brought up in the Portsmouth area, he was the only child of middle-aged parents, John and Molly Logue, who married late. He attended Roman Catholic schools, including St John's College, Portsmouth, Prior Park College, before going to Portsmouth Grammar School. He was a playwright and screenwriter as well as a film actor. His screenplays were Savage Messiah and The End of Arthur's Marriage. He was a long-term contributor to Private Eye magazine, as well as writing for Alexander Trocchi's literary journal, Merlin. Logue won the 2005 Whitbread Poetry Award for Cold Calls. One of his poems, Be Not Too Hard, was set to music by Donovan and heard in the film Poor Cow (1967), and was made popular by Joan Baez on her eponymous 1967 album, Joan. Another completely different song titled "Be Not Too Hard" based on the poem was performed by Manfred Mann's Earth Band on their 1974 album The Good Earth. The arrangement was written by Mick Rogers, who had Logue credited as a co-writer on the record sleeve.

[mlpaula]

We shoul ponder over these words. And let them model our lives.
The world would be so much better...
I knew this poem since college, 50 years ago, and it made difference in my life.