My New Favorite Song

Okay, so I've probably told alot of you this, because when I find something new, I become a bit obsessed. Anyway, I'm getting old, and I'm a little "technologically challenged," but I bought my first iPod several months ago. And, of course, I didn't start out small with a regular iPod. I just had to have the iTouch! I'll have to say I love it! Since all of my friends and family have had iPod's forever, like the rest of the world, they have a ton of songs in their libraries. So, of the 1200+ songs on mine, I would say maybe 60 are mine, all the others I've mooched from other people (since I didn't really know how to download them on there at first anyway)! So, I kept seeing this song "When the Saints" by Sara Groves come up when I'd have my iTouch on shuffle. I honestly just thought it was a recording of the old hymn and have always skipped over it. Well, I decided on my drive to Dallas the other day to not skip through any songs. I was going to listen and appreciate all kinds of music! So, this song came on and I had to replay it like 3 times! It's amazing! I think you all should download it. You can actually look it up on YouTube and there are several videos of it. It's a beautiful expression of a desire to live a life that's completely sold out for Christ! I get chills when she goes through a list of modern-day saints! We are all saints because of Christ! Let's live our lives like it!

So, this will be the next song I'll be begging the praise band to play for me to sing at church. Hopefully this one doesn't have 7 sharps, because I was told last time, I wasn't allowed to do that again! Oh, the joys of not being able to read music!! HaHa!

Here are the lyrics:

Lord I have a heavy burden of all I've seen and know
It's more than I can handle
But your word is burning like a fire shut up in my bones
and I cannot let it go

And when I'm weary and overwrought
with so many battles left unfought

I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard
I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars
And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them

Lord it's all that I can't carry and cannot leave behind
it often overwhelms me
but when I think of all who've gone before and lived the faithful life
their courage compells me
And when I'm weary and overwrought
with so many battles left unfought

I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard
I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars

I see the shepherd Moses in the Pharohs court
I hear his call for freedom for the people of the Lord

And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them
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And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them

I see the long quiet walk along the Underground Railroad
I see the slave awakening to the value of her soul

I see the young missionary and the angry spear
I see his family returning with no trace of fear

I see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nights
I see the sisters standing by the dying man's side

I see the young girl huddled on the brothel floor
I see the man with a passion come and kicking down the door

I see the man of sorrows and his long troubled road
I see the world on his shoulders and my easy load

And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them
and when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them
I want to be one of them