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This song is not from Reb Shlomo but was composed by Rabbi Eliyahu Hartman, who paid Shlomo to sing it on a record. Yes, an old vinyl record, back in the late 60s.

Shlomo recorded Eliyahu Hartman's songs as a favor to Hartman. He did this twice, once on one side of a vinyl record circa 1970, and then again on the cassette circa 1980 with much better quality of musical accompaniment.

Thank you, I will do that right away. By the way, I would appreciate if you could check out my niggunim and publicize them if you find them enjoyable. A few are up on YouTube from concert videos. Yaakov David Homnick

The translation approximately is as follows:

In the first part we ask the Heavenly Court and the Earthly Court to permit us to pray together with the sinners. This represents a moment of solidarity with all of mankind, however fallen, however damaged. On this holy night of Yom Kippur, when the...