Prayer Cover

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For Brent Jones, chaplain in Bastrop, in the week he asked his friends for prayer cover over his household. Seventies gospel soul: keep your arms up, brother, we've got you covered.

Lyrics

[Intro - Marching Snare, Men's Cadence Call and Response]
Sound off! (Lord, hear!)
Sound off! (We're here!)
Bring it on down! (Lord, hear! We're here!)

[Verse 1]
The hospice bed came Monday, by the window, in the light,
Eighty-eight years old and Momma's coming home,
Two years you filled her pill box every Sunday night,
Now Laura sleeps beside her so she won't wake up alone.
You took two pups somebody named for hell
And gave them better names, the way the Lord did you,
Now Samson, named for the strongest man who ever stood,
Can't get his back legs under him, and there's nothing you can do.

[Pre-Chorus]
You said it's way too weird to be coincidence,
You said you must be doing something right,
Every bomber crew knew when the flak got thick,
You were right over the target that night.

[Chorus - Full Choir]
So keep your head down, brother, we've got you covered,
We've got men on their knees all the way down the line,
For Laura and Momma and Samson and you,
Prayer cover over the Jones house tonight.

[Verse 2]
Next door a girl is carrying a baby
Whose daddy didn't wake up on her couch,
And Ray went to the prayer room this morning
And sat beside a chair that cancer emptied out.
And you've got a word to bring to Wilderness Ridge,
And the hospice nurse is calling on the phone,
And all of it this week, on one man's shoulders,
But that man has never once been on his own.

[Pre-Chorus]
You said it's way too weird to be coincidence,
You said you must be doing something right,
Every bomber crew knew when the flak got thick,
You were right over the target that night.

[Chorus - Full Choir]
So keep your head down, brother, we've got you covered,
We've got men on their knees all the way down the line,
For Laura and Momma and Samson and you,
Prayer cover over the Jones house tonight.

[Verse 3]
They let you out the gate in March of oh-eight,
Back when you were on the other side, nobody shot,
Now Bastrop calls you chaplain, and you lead twenty more,
So you're drawing every round the devil's got.

[Bridge - Build]
When Moses' arms got heavy and the battle wasn't won,
Two men found him a rock and sat him down,
One on the left side, and one on the right,
And his hands held steady till the going down of the sun.
We brought the rock, brother! (We brought the rock!)
Now lift 'em up! (Lift 'em up!)

[Final Chorus - Full Choir, Triumphant]
So keep your arms up, brother, we've got you covered,
There's a rock under you and a man on either side,
For Laura and Momma and Samson and you,
Prayer cover over the Jones house tonight.

[Outro - Marching Snare, Call and Response]
Steady, steady, till the going down of the sun,
Sound off! (Lord, hear!)
Sound off! (We're here!)
Bring it on down! (Lord, hear! We're here!)

[End]

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