(Chris Jonat)
Well I'm Jonathan Henry McKay I've on this farm 30 years and a day Some folks call me Junior but I don't it that way Since the storm of '90 when dad to stay Mom passed a year couldn't bear being alone It's going on ten years I head of this home Now I got me a and three boys of my own I work hard, I live clean, I what I've sewn
Aint had to speak of in round near a year Crops searching for water but there aint nothing We need something soon, but it won't I fear My children won't eat, run out of tears. So I to the back forty, said I needed the air I walked the fence, through the Johnson share And when I made right sure no one me there I got on my knees, cried Lord, do you care?
Amen, Amen, Oh Lord, Amen,
Next morning came early sleep still in my My eldest, John Three, he was the to rise He said, Daddy come I got the biggest surprise We jumped to our cause we realized Could hear the rain the patio door And through cracks onto the kitchen floor We danced in the til we could stand it no more Then got down on our knees our thanks to the Lord
I sent the boys to their aunts, day last Yesterday told the wife get there fast The water keeps rising it's past The roof of the but I'm staying pat Now I'm top of the tree my daddy once climbed And I'm thinking I'm done though it seem my time I got living to do, to mind Wanna watch the grow, see the next in my line And I can't bow down, cause there's no for my knees But I'm crying out loud now, I'm asking you Father have mercy, hear my pleas Lord up in I'm not ready to leave
Well I'm Jonathan Charles McKay And I've lived on this farm my ten and a day Some folks call me Three but I don't it that way Since done traded his own life for rain