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Come Judgement Day
05:27
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Everybody’s slaying just to get ahead
Yeah everybody’s slaving just to get ahead
But you’ll never be free if you’re chaining those behind
Or if you’re selling your soul on the dotted line
I ain’t selling my songs to the record man
Cause their radio stations won’t reach this land
I ain’t moving to the city and changing my name
You can keep your money you can keep your fame
You can gain the whole world
But it’ll cost your soul
Oh everybody dies
Clinging to fool’s gold
Give me what’s real
What doesn’t rust or fade
Come hell or high water
Come judgement day
I’ve seen the rivers rise and overtake their banks
Like cities that crumble under bombs and tanks
Empires come and empires go
Oh you can dam the river but you can’t stop the flow
I ain’t fighting your wars in god knows where
How much sorrow can the whole earth bear?
How many flags we all gotta fold
Before the empires are buried under blood and gold?
You can gain the whole world
But it’ll cost your soul
Oh everybody dies
Clinging to fool’s gold
Give me what’s real
What doesn’t rust or fade
Come hell or high water
Come judgement day
Give me my job at the corner store
And I will sell liquor ‘til we close the doors
We can keep the lights on just fine
And I can pay the rent on time
Give me my garden and the morning dew
And give me my wife with her worn out shoes
Give me my son with his toothy grin
And I would live this life again
Oh I would live this life again
Yeah I would live this life again
You can gain the whole world
But it’ll cost your soul
Oh everybody dies
Clinging to fool’s gold
Give me what’s real
What doesn’t rust or fade
Come hell or high water
Come judgement day
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Mister loosen that tie
And don’t bother with your tent
Oh I expect they’ll be a few stars tonight
My soul don’t need no savin’
And I reckon everybody in this town’s
Been saved a few times before
We all drink a little whisky
And we all play a few cards
But the Holy Ghost runs free in these hills
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We’ve got four chords and the gospel
If you want to sing a few hymns while
The children dance barefoot in the grass
We’ve all seen our share of sorrows
We’ve all learned to give and to borrow
Our barn’s been full and our barns been bare
They say a chord of three strands
Ain’t easily broken
Oh we’ve got four chords and the gospel, babe
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It's a Wonderful Life
04:09
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My dear, everything moves so fast
It all moves so fast these days
But come in real close and dance real slow
And maybe time will change its pace
Maybe we can sing time to sleep
Just for tonight
And we can tiptoe and slip outside
Before he wakes the morning’s light
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And like carolers on Christmas Eve
We will call on those held dear
And we will pass the spirits among us
And we will toast the coming year
It will surely come before we know it
And the next upon its heels
But within this life is splendor tangled
Like Christmas lights unreeled
My dear it’s still
A wonderful life
A wonderful life
My dear it’s still
A wonderful life
My dear let’s toast the sorrows
And the dreams left unfulfilled
For this life is a blink and a whisper
But look at all that we have built
Look at all the friends we have to share with
Look at all the hope that we have dared with
Look at how far we’ve leapt
And how far we’ve come
My friends it’s still
A wonderful life
A wonderful life
My friends it’s still
A wonderful life
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Sparrow of Freedom
03:45
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Come banging through the kitchen, babe
And rattle all the pots and pans
Girl you’re my favorite distraction
From the wars in every land
Come crash into my windowpane
Come startle me in my cage
Oh sparrow of freedom, wake me from slumber
And remind me to turn the page
Oh our wild boy
Come kicking out of the womb
Remind us that pain may last for the night
But our hearts will always have room
Oh sweet song of joy
Come rise again in our chests
Pour your bottle of fine aged wine
And pull up a chair for our guests
Oh joy, come and dance with us tonight
Oh sorrow move the table
And break out the candles for light
Oh peace bring your fiddle
And the banjo with a few good strings
And set our mouths to singing
And set our feet to dancing
With the Giver of all good things
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Faith ain’t having all the answers, babe
Or even a glimpse around the next bend
Faith is getting knocked down hard, babe
And learning how to get out of bed again
Faith sometimes builds a boat in the desert
Faith sometimes walks on angry seas
Faith sometimes holds your hand through the night
Or washes your feet with bended knees
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Faith is believing that love is stronger
Than kings and princes who divide and conquer
Faith is laying your body down
And believing new life will come up from the ground
I ain’t lost my faith, boy
It’s stronger now than it’s ever been
For I have learned how to dance in the dark
And that’s where all new life begins
Let new life begin in me
Let new life begin in me
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The Bible Belt
03:03
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Oh I’ve known too many men
Who’ve been hung with the Bible Belt
Oh a hammer can build a home or crack a skull
With enough hands you can twist most things
You can kill two thieves with the King of Kings
But it ain’t murder babe if there’s a crowd
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Oh you can ship a boy off to war
Without telling him what he’s fighting for
For everyone outside the wall’s an enemy
Narrow the gate to the promised land,
But bend your knee and raise your hand
And you’ll be counted righteous among the weeds
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Oh judgement day is coming soon
For the witches, sinners, and infidels
Oh the hangman’s tied the noose and called the dogs
Truth sometimes is who shouts the loudest
With the boldest tongue of the scriptures calloused
While Jesus whispers, ‘they know not what they do’
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John Lucas Boone, North Carolina
John Lucas is a singer-songwriter from the mountains of NC.
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