Another Song (#2)

Figured I'd share some more f the songs I wrote. If you like them please let me know. If you don't care for them, then skip the part about letting me know. All I ask is for proper copyright credits should you decide to use them.

Old Brown Bible
Original Music & Lyrics © 2005 by A.E. Barri, all rights reserved

These Lyrics ©2012 A.E. Barri, all rights reserved
Slightly "bouncy" 2/4--moderate.

1. I found the old brown Bible on a dusty bookstore rack
Past a handmade sign that said “Religious books down in the back”
There inside the cover a mother’s heart called out to me,
In faded lines, on a yellowed page, back in 1873-

Chorus 1

“I would gladly suffer and die upon the cross-
For any of my children” was the prayer this mother wrote
She wrote it for her family, never knowing I would see,
But her loving cry ‘cross a century showed Jesus love to me.
(instrumental riff—one line)

2. Inside that old Brown Bible was the answer for all sin

How a loving father planned to bring His chidren home again
So He made Himself a sacrifice to set all sinners free,
And He wrote it in a message- for everyone to see-

Chorus 2

“I would gladly suffer and die upon the cross-
For any of my children”- was the prayer Our Father wrote,
He wrote it for all people cause He wanted us to see,
How he loved so much that He gave Himself- to end sin’s misery.
(instrumental riff—one line)

3. Well years have passed and somehow that old Bible it got lost

But the message that it held inside showed just how much it cost
When on Golgotha’s hill the saviour died for you and me
He broke the bonds of sin and death and won the victory

Chorus 3

For He gladly suffered and died upon that cross,
For all the fallen people, just to save them being lost,
Though I read it on a dusty page in a book from yesterday
It was true two-thousand years ago, and it’s still the truth today.
(instrumental riff—one line)

(Reprise, ritardando and out) I would gladly suffer and die upon the cross.