Creek’s a gonna rise and the nag’s gonna foal 
Dust in the field gonna give up gold
Empty kitchen gonna run with children 
Hungry baby gonna eat her filling

River and the levee gonna reach the top
I’m gonna stay up late, I’m gonna hear them pop
Make a little music till we reap them crops
We’ll be dancing in the house tonight

Prayed for rain and then we got much better
This old town will never see bad weather

The land turned gray, not a cloud was coming 
Been a long time since the bees been humming
Preacher man said we gotta get down doing
Work with God or we will come to ruin

All the people come and all the work shut down
All the people come running from miles around
All we had to do was hold a big hoedown
And we’re singing like it’s already done

Prayed for rain about noon on Sunday 
Swam to church to thank the Lord on Monday

Not a pro recording, just another word for God’s people as a song.

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Listen, little children
Far ones and old
Come to the altar
Give up your runnin’ for gold
or lose all that you hold
It ain’t gonna be worth much
to nobody much longer no more

Don’t go for anglin’
for more than you need
Dwell in the abundance
without no abundance of greed
Whose mouth can that feed?
Gold ain’t gonna be worth much
to nobody much longer no more

Let’s turn to the outside
from the safety within
Weep for the lost
and the way that we win
The new world is worth it
and this one ain’t working no more

Consider the one from
the cross and the curse
The first and the best
See him out with
the last and the worst
Don’t just fill up your purse
Go with him to love them
His water can quench any thirst

Listen, little children
Far ones and old
Come to the altar
Give up your runnin’ for gold
or lose all that you hold
It ain’t gonna be worth much
to nobody much longer no more

Live at Red Rocks!

I am earth and wood
I am earth and wood
In a world of broken glass

I am earth and wood
I am understood to be
A man different than I am
Because I hold my hat in my hand Because I carry no gun on my land

I am earth and wood
I am understood to be
A man bigger than I am
Because I draw my line in the sand Because my foes are treated like my friends

I am earth and wood
And my heart is good
And the waters run dark and deep
I watch the walls while the faithful sleep I break the rules that the faithful keep

I am east and west
I’m the worst and best
When I give my word, I will
I can starve or I can kill
I can give birth or eat my fill
I am earth and wood
I am earth and wood
In a world of broken glass

Newer demo – recorded in Rhyolite, NV near Death Valley

I’m the least of all those coming after me
I’m the least of all those coming you will see
From the least of all the brothers to the least of all the others
Better get your house in order
Better get your things together
Oh you know the Lord is coming over tonight

When the mountains start to crumble and the earth begins to move
When you hear the sound of heaven coming through
When you feel your heart is thumping and you know he’s doing something
Better get your house in order
Better get your things together
Oh you know the Lord is coming over tonight

Let the sun shine, let the day break in
Oh my people, help my people find a friend
Help the hopeless, feed the all alone
Be the hands and feet we really need

With the rising of the morning and the passing of the sea
When the Lord has to set his captives free
We will hear the trumpet sound and see the angels all around him
Better get your house in order
Better get your things together
Oh you know the Lord is coming over tonight

There’s a land of milk and honey for the ones who will receive
There’s a promise for the ones who will believe
Love in truth will see his pardon, truth in love will see his garden
Better get your house in order
Better get your things together
Oh you know the Lord is coming over tonight

Stop the madness, don’t worship sadness
See gladness comin’ in with love so pure and free
Pour out the old wine, house the left behind
Open up your gates and let your sunlight really shine

I have held My peace a long time,
I have been still and restrained Myself.
Now I will cry like a woman in labor,
I will pant and gasp at once.

Isaiah 42:14

1st demo – starts out pretty slow

I spent all my money making you my honey
Now you won the lottery you haven’t got a dime for me
I know you can do it I saw me put you through it
Now I look around and see you holding onto all the cash you found

I got lost in the water in the river where I thought about
The way we used to live it up and now I’ve got to give it up
My purse is empty I’m hungry for a century
Can you give me just a little bread to feed the meter in my head

I’ll be whole again
Where love is money I am free to spend
I’ll be whole again
You might have to let me in

I been saving all my nickels now I haven’t got a penny
But you’re loaded like a millionaire and you don’t give me any
I’ve been taxed and I’ve been levied I’ve been fined and I’ve been feed
But as broke as I’ve been wandering your love is all I need

Then I’ll be whole again
Where love is money I am free to spend
I’ll be whole again
You might have to let me in

A holiday song about some stuff I read in the Bible regarding God’s unfailing love.

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There ain’t nothing you can do
To make me not love

What if you spit in my face
Throw my love away
Make me a disgrace
What if you say I don’t exist
That I don’t deserve to live
Should never be forgived

What if you push me off the wall
Laughing as I fall
What if I lose it all?
What if I wander forty years
Still no love is near
What if I die in here?

Once before I came to you
Said my love is true
You cut me in two
Now I’ve got two more open hands
I’m doing it again
And so are you

Because you’re perfect to me
Your spirit wild and free

Take me down to the river where the waters run together
Lay my body down
Underneath the shady tree where the morning sun will shine on me
Lay my body down​

In the springtime sit with me, we’ll watch the flowers and the bees
Sing and run around​
When the fall begins to cool, winter gathers at the pool
Sing and settle down

Out in the day clouds gather and they go
Only in the night the light may grow

Feel the breeze obey the wind and hear the leaves all say the end is near
Lay my body down
At the end with all the blessed I’ll come to take my well-earned rest
Lay my body down

I might know a thing or two about the one I love
I’ve spent all the time I need to above

We wrestle for a night without a struggle
Win the match and climb that ladder
Proudly walk away
Then we sit with God instead because we’ve suffered
Beaten down and found in mercy
Never to walk away

He is the vine
Apart from him we are nothing

We have this treasure here in earthen vessels
Bread of life pouring forth
From humble jars of clay
How does rainfall come to cleanse the wicked?
And that rain’s a flood of mercy
Washing the fear away

He is the vine
Apart from him we are nothing

Hey, I – I don’t want to know
Anything I can write down
Even the way to go
Hey, I – I only want to know
The name he calls me by
The day he calls me home

Dive into the stream of living water
Break the surface, swim to shore
You’ll wonder where you are
Wash the feet of those who have no mercy
Feel the pain within their souls
Washing through your heart

He is the Vine