Roll on, No one goes alone:
Our past follows us:
Those who formed our culture,
Those who built our houses,
Those who sewed our clothes,
Those who grew our food.
The one who gave us birth,
The ones who nurtured our life,
The ones who lifted us up or pushed us
down,
The ones who loved us and left;
God who creates and sustains us.
Roll on: No one goes alone.
Roll on; No one goes alone;
Our present accompanies us:
Those leading our institutions,
Those victimized by our way of life.
Those who invent the new,
Those who protect the precious.
The ones we see every day,
The ones we meet on occasion,
The ones who love us,
The ones we don’t know:
The Spirit who trusts and empowers.
Roll on; No one goes alone.
Roll on; No one goes alone;
Our future beckons us:
The inventors whose result we’ll see,
The physicians who will manage our
health,
Those leaders yet to be chosen,
Those who will solve the problems
we made.
The youth who draw from our
genes,
The youth we’ve helped to
nourish,
The friends we’ve yet to
make,
The ones we love and will
lose;
The Risen Lord who goes before us.
Roll on; No one goes alone.
Roll on.