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Sir Johns Run

from Hilo by Brother Joshua

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Come and save my soul/ Come and save my soul
Take me down to the river grounds and save me, save my soul…

My brother and I were born/ Brother and I were born
In an old gray shack under clouds of black on the shore of Sir Johns Run…

We’d play our fiddles loud/ Play our fiddles loud
We’d play our fiddles loud and we’d draw a crowd at the mine near Sir Johns Run…

My brother gave me my name/ Brother gave me my name
He called me Moses, said I arose like a beautiful, righteous flame…

I had turned 21/ I had just turned 21
When we went to work where the devil lurks
in the mines near Sir Johns Run…

I heard the foreman shout/ I heard the foreman shout
I heard the foreman shout and without a doubt
The timber came down with a mighty sound
They worked for hours trying to dig us out
I saw the lamplight bulb go down, down, down, down

When the smoke had cleared/ When the smoke had cleared
I heard my brother’s prayer in the cloudy air
The last words of his I’d hear…

Come and save my soul/ Come and save my soul
Take me down to the river grounds and save me…
Take me down to the river grounds
And save me, save my soul…

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from Hilo, released November 20, 2015

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