Tombstone Blues (Revisited)
Jonah Cross
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By the sweet silver stream in old Galilee Past farmers and fisherman tending the sea And spreading the net of an old mystery Stood the lovely and lonely Jesus Out in the wilderness, no money for meat Wild locusts and honey was all he did eat For shoes just the gospel was shod on his feet And called by the name John the Baptist Now the cripples and lepers, the lame and the blind All crowded 'round Jesus, before and behind With a-weepin' and a-wailin' and a-moanin' and cryin' Just to touch but the hem of his garment Now John's in the prison, his head on a plate Though Herod bewail it, too little, too late He thought matters had ended for the good of his state But the worms in his belly torment him Well Satan's in the desert, he ain't-a-got no food And down by the pasture he's prowlin' for you And Christ's on the cross with the tombstone blues Well the doctors and lawyers with their casebooks in hand All question the Saviour and bid him to stand While round him is rung the centurion band To try to break all of his bones asunder Though they scourged him and hung him upon a cruel cross And spat on and mocked him and hailed him with taunts Silently Christ, though bloody and gaunt While the heavens wept darkness and thunder Well Satan's in the desert, he ain't-a-got no food And down by the pasture he's prowlin' for you And Christ's on the cross with the tombstone blues Down in the valley, the grave for a bed And no place was found for to lay his poor head The lowly Lord Jesus now raised from the dead And returning in terrible glory Hear now ye harlots, and hearken, ye thieves And all those who now God's Holy Ghost grieve Remember the cross all sins can relieve And hear now the end of the story
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