Mighty Man of Valor

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Gideon was hiding in a winepress when the angel called him a mighty man of valor. For Brent, who named one of his rescue dogs Gideon, in a week when he asked Gideon's question.

Lyrics

[Intro - Solo Piano]

[Verse 1]
Down in a winepress, Gideon was threshing,
Hiding his harvest from the raiders on the hill,
An angel sat beneath the oak tree, watching
A scared man working quiet, keeping low and keeping still.

[Pre-Chorus]
He hadn't won a thing, he hadn't fought a soul,
Just a scared man with his wheat down in a hole,
And heaven didn't tell him to be braver,
Heaven said:

[Chorus]
"The LORD is with you,
You mighty man of valor,"
Down in the winepress,
Before the fight was won,
The LORD is with you,
You mighty man of valor,
He said it first, before a single thing was done.

[Verse 2]
You've got a dog named Gideon asleep against the door,
And his brother Samson can't get up to meet you anymore,
Laura's counting Momma's breathing in the middle of the night,
And there's a widower in the prayer room, and no words that come out right.

[Pre-Chorus]
So you asked what Gideon asked beneath the oak:
"If the LORD is with us, then why has all this happened?"
And heaven didn't answer with a reason,
Heaven said it one more time:

[Chorus]
"The LORD is with you,
You mighty man of valor,"
Down in the winepress,
Before the fight was won,
The LORD is with you,
You mighty man of valor,
He said it first, before a single thing was done.

[Bridge - Building]
He cut the army down from thirty-two thousand
To three hundred, so nobody could boast,
Gave every man a trumpet and a torch inside a clay jar,
And in the middle of the night they broke them, every one,
[Shouted, Full Choir]
The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!

[Final Chorus - Full Choir, Major Key]
The LORD is with you,
You mighty man of valor,
He said it in the cellblock
Before the gate swung wide,
The LORD is with you,
In the front room and the prayer room,
"Surely I will be with you," all the way to the other side.

[Outro - Solo Piano]
Surely I will be with you.

[End]

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