" I can hear Bob Marley challenging us, singing" Mr Olara Otunnu
                                    
`Hear the children cryin’
Hear the children cryin’
From Beslan  to Bar-Lonyo to Bunia
And so we tell them:
No, children, no cry
Don’t worry about a thing, oh no!
‘Cause everything gonna be all right.
 
Hear the children cryin’
From Mazar-i-Sharif  to Jumla to Darfur
Won’t you help to sing
‘Cause all they ever asked:
Redemption Songs. Redemption Songs.

Rising up this mornin’,
I saw three little birds
Pitch by the doorstep of the Security Council
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin’, This is our message to you-ou-ou.

Hear the children cryin’
From Apartado to Malisevo to the Vanni
But I know they cry not in vain 
‘Cause now the times are changin’
Love has come to bloom again.
  
Well, the children are waiting - - they are waiting for the Redemption Songs.