The Genesis Song

Genesis Club Members and Staff playing

"Will The Circle Be UnBroken"

at our 20th Anniversary Holiday Party

In 1997, The Genesis Club had the opportunity to attend a Mental Health Candle Light Vigil at Elm Park in Worcester, MA.  During this time, the Members and Staff at Genesis Club rewrote the lyrics to a popular folk song "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".

This Candlelight Vigil was for the communty to remember individuals with mental illness that had passed away at Worcester State Hopspital. Many Genesis Members and Staff attended the event.

Now this song has grown into a true Genesis Club tradition.

At least once  month, when our International Collegues depart, you will see Members and Staff gather to sing this song.

Often it is a bit more upbeat that the initial incarnation, but it still is a way for our communty to think of the Genesis friends that we love and miss.

"Will the Circle Be Unbroken"

Performed by Genesis Members and Staff

Peter Travisano      Roland Gibson         Ed Barnett

Mark Robie            Ken Bisson              Luke Knowles

Beth Griffon            Bernie Frenette

Chorus:

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by Lord, by and by

There is hope here and its growing

If we try Lord if we try.

There are people all around us

Whose sweet form we often miss

With the weight of that mighty stigma

That just has no usefulness

In that blindness that’s mental illness

There’s a place where you can go.

There is a light inside each person

And here’s a place to let it show.

All alone the candle flickers,

But together darkness fades.

Our light is our truths united,

In our hope, foundations laid.

Hand in hand we face the future

Proud of how far we have come.

Come and join us here in the circle

There is still work to be done.

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Genesis Club musicians recording with Paul Provost, click on the pics below to see the larger version.