Land of My Sojourn Lyrics

Psalm 137:1-6/1 Peter 1:17/Joshua 2:1-24
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And the coal trucks come runnin' with their bellies full of coal
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And their big wheels a-hummin' down
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This road that lies open like the soul of the woman
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Who hid the spies who were lookin' for the land of the milk and the honey
And this road she is a woman, she was made from a rib cut from the
Sides of these mountains of these great sleeping Adams who are
Lonely even here in paradise, lonely for somebody to kiss them
And I'll sing my song, and I'll sing my song
In the land of my sojourn
And the lady in the harbor she still holds her torch
Out to those huddled masses who are yearning for freedom that still eludes them
The immigant's children see their brightest dreams shattered
Here on the New Jersey shoreline in the greed and the glitter of those
High-tech casinos, but some mendicants wander off into a cathedral
And they stoop in the silence and there their prayers are still whispered
And I'll sing their song, and I'll sing their song
In the land of my sojourn
Nobody tells you when you get born here
How much you'll come to love it
And how you'll never belong here so I'll
Call you my country and I'll be lonely for my home
And I wish that I could take you there with me
And down the brown brick spine of some dirty blind alley
All those drainpipes were drippin' out the last Sons of Thunder
While off in the distance the smokestacks were belching back this city's best
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And the countryside was pocked with all of those mailpouch posters
Thrown up on the rotting sideboards of these rundown stables
Like the one that Christ was born in when the old world started dying
And the new world started coming on
And I'll sing His song, and I'll sing His song
In the land of my sojourn
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sojourn and I will sing his song, in the land of my
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Words and music by Rich Mullins and Beaker
1993 Edward Grant, Inc. (ASCAP) / Kid Brothers of St. Frank Publishing (ASCAP)