Who would steal a life to satisfy a greed? Who would buy a life, despairing and in need? God, help us wipe away this evil trade, make it now your people's passionate crusade! Who would hurt a child, lead innocents astray? Who would do this thing and bear the light of day? God, help us wipe away this evil trade, make it now your people's passionate crusade! Who would taint the young who look for love and care, slake a lust for lucre, harm the unaware? God, help us wipe away this evil trade, make it now your people's passionate crusade! Where the poor are punished, nothing left to sell but their very bodies in a human hell, **let us hear the Gospel, heed its urgent pleas: as you would for Jesus, do for the least of these! Interfaith version: ** God, help us wipe away this evil trade! Every faith and culture join in this crusade!