My Summer with Johnny #4

In July, I began listening to Johnny Cash. He has quite a lot of gospel songs. I thought I would spend some weeks in August sharing some of my favorites with you. The third song I'd like to share with you is, "Ain't No Grave."





There ain't no grave can hold my body down
There ain't no grave can hold my body down
When I hear that trumpet sound I'm gonna rise right out of the ground
Ain't no grave can hold my body down

© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible

My Summer With Johnny #3

In July, I began listening to Johnny Cash. He has quite a lot of gospel songs. I thought I would spend some weeks in August sharing some of my favorites with you. The third song I'd like to share with you is, "Here Was A Man." Is it a song? Yes and no. It's more of a reading with background music. But is it good? Yes!!! 


Here was a man, a man
Who was born in a small village
The son of a peasant woman
He grew up in another small village
Until he reached the age of thirty
He worked as a carpenter
Then for three years he was a traveling minister
But he never traveled more than two hundred miles
From where he was born
And where he did go, he usually walked...



© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible

My Summer with Johnny #2

In July, I began listening to Johnny Cash. He has quite a lot of gospel songs. I thought I would spend some weeks in August sharing some of my favorites with you. The second song I'd like to share with you is "The Man Comes Around." According to Wikipedia, it is one of the last songs Cash wrote before his death. 

Here are the first few verses:

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder:
One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw.
And behold, a white horse.
There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
The hairs on your arm will stand up.
At the terror in each sip and in each sup.
For you partake of that last offered cup,
Or disappear into the potter's ground.
When the man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singin'.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum.
Voices callin', voices cryin'.
Some are born an' some are dyin'.
It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.

© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible

My Summer with Johnny #1

In July, I began listening to Johnny Cash. He has quite a lot of gospel songs. I thought I would spend some weeks in August sharing some of my favorites with you. The first song I'd like to share with you is, "The Preacher Said, 'Jesus Said.'"

Here are the first two verses:

Well with everybody tryin' to tell us what to do
You wonder how are you to know whose word is true
But the preacher just keep on a bringing us a very same word
And from St Paul to Billy Graham the same is heard
And the preacher said of truth Jesus said
(And Jesus said I'm the way the truth and the life)
Well we can see that the world is full of greed
There's so much hate yet there is so much need
What should we do when no one seems to care
What can we do when there is no love there
And then the preacher said of love Jesus said
(Jesus said love Thy neighbor as Thyself)

The song features Johnny Cash and Billy Graham. It was released in 1971.





© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible