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Like Mary and Joseph

from Songs of Wind and Water by John Coleman

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Cars driving by on a hot Christmas morning
Filled up with children lit up with smiles
Filled with the thought of a grandmother’s cooking
Filled up with thoughts of the tree
I haven’t always lived by the roadside
I had a family, I had a bride
But now we’re scattered like dice from an egg cup
Still have that aching inside

Like Mary and Joseph, there’s no red carpet treatment
Like Mary and Joseph it’s a long way from home
There doesn’t seem to be even a stable
And this is the morning that Jesus is born

Across the park are some carollers singing
Joy to the world is the song that they bring
And it’s the tenderest love that they’re bringing
To the people sitting under the trees
I don’t know much about God or the Bible
I don’t even know if he’s there
But I remember the birth of my baby
And the colour of my baby’s hair

Like Mary and Joseph ...

Past open windows, laughter just spills out
All of the voices they weave into one
And this voice speaks of a family united
together, cause Christmas has come
When I was young I was as strong as a gumtree
And when I spoke my family listened to me
But I’m a man who spoke often in anger
Now no one listens to me

Like Mary and Joseph ...

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from Songs of Wind and Water, released July 10, 2012

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John Coleman Hobart, Australia

John Coleman is an Australian singer/songwriter in the acoustic folk/rock tradition who has produced eleven albums of original songs The most recent is Falling Into Light - a collection of songs for meditation - his final collaboration with Noel Davis. Many of John’s songs are inspired by and explore the spirituality of the L’Arche and Quaker communities to which he belongs. ... more

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