Spiritual Reflections

Well, brother, better get right with god
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?
While here upon this earth, do try
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?

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Don't you hear jerusalem moan?
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?
Glad souls are singin'
And the joy be ringin'
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?

Well, get to church and listen to the preacher
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?
Get right with god and he'll be your teacher
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?

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Well, you better get on your knees and pray
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?
Let jesus wash your sins away
Don't you hear jerusalem moan?
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(repeat first verse)

(chorus)

Don't you hear jerusalem moan?

A hundred year old photograph
Stares out from a frame
And if you look real close you'll see
Our eyes are just the same
I never met them face to face
But i still know them well
From the stories
My dear grandma would tell

Elijah was a farmer
He knew how to make things grow
Fannie vowed she'd follow him
Wherever he would go
As things turned out they never left
Their small kentucky farm
But he kept her fed
She kept him warm

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They're my guardian angels
And i know they can see
Ev'ry step i take
They are watching over me
I might not know where i'm goin'
But i'm sure where i come from
They're my guardian angels
And i'm their special one

Sometimes when i'm tired
I feel elijah take my arm
He says, "keep a-goin', hard work
Never did a body harm."
And when i'm really troubled
And i don't know what to do
Fannie whispers, "just do your best, we're awful proud of you!"

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A hundred year old photograph
Stares out from a frame
And if you look real close you'll see
Our eyes are just the same

One day a mother
Come to a prison
To see an 'erring
But precious son
She told the warden
How much she loved him
It did not matter
What he had done

She did not bring to him
(bring to him)
Parole or pardon
(pardon free)
She brought no silver
(brought no gold)
No pomp nor style
(him to see)
It was a halo
(halo bright)
Sent down from heaven
(heaven's light)
The sweetest gift
(a mother's smile)

Her boy had wandered
Far from the far side
Though she had pleaded
With him each night
But not a word did
She ever utter
That told her heartaches
Her smile was bright

(repeat chorus)

She left a smile
You can remember
She's gone to heaven
From heartache's free
Them bars around you
Will never change her
He was her baby
An error will be

(repeat chorus)

It was a halo bright
Sent down from heaven's light
The sweetest gift
A mother's smile

When they plant me like a seed in the ground
In silent sleep beneath some mossy mound
I'll be like a rose just waitin' for the spring
'cause i'm a gonna rise up, rise up, shout and sing

'cause there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down
When i hear, i hear that trumpet sound
I know i've been a dyin' since the day that i was born
But now i'm living for that resurrection morn'

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When king jesus calls his children home
When king jesus calls his children home
I'm a gonna wear my snow white gown
I'm gonna put on a starry crown
When king jesus calls his children home

Like a bird in a cage that's been set free
My soul will sing throughout eternity
I'll shed this mortal shell, oh, let ol' satan stay in hell
I'll see glory that no human tongue can tell

(repeat chorus)

Ye know not the hour
Ye know not the day
So, be humble, my children
Hide and watch and pray

(repeat chorus)
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Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days
Sometimes it feels like this worlds gone crazy
Grandpa, take me back to yesterday
When the line between right and wrong
Didn't seem so hazy

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Did lovers really fall in love to stay
And stand beside each other, come what may
Was a promise really something people kept
Not just something they would say
Did families really bow their heads to pray
Did daddies really never go away
Oh, grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days

Grandpa, everything is changing fast
We call it progress, but i just don't know
And grandpa, let's wander back into the past
And paint me the picture of long ago

(repeat chorus)

Did lovers really fall in love to stay
And stand beside each other come what may
Was a promise really something people kept
Not just something they would say and then forget
Did families really bow their heads to pray
Did daddies really never go away
Oh, grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days
Oh, grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days