Come, Come Whoever You Are (Rumi)

"Come, Come Whoever You Are," is a wonderfully inviting song taking its text from a poem by Rumi (music by Lynn Ungar). A perennial favorite among Unitarian congregations, it is sung here by the Chancel Choir at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland. As you can hear, it works beautifully as a round.

Come, come, whoever you are,
wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

The original poem by Rumi is even more radical:

Come, Come whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving,
It doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a tousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.



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