(Chris Jonat)
Well I'm Jonathan Charles Henry I've lived on 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 later couldn't bear alone It's going on ten I been 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
had rain to speak of in round near a year Crops searching for water but there nothing near We need soon, but it won't come I fear My won't eat, wife'll run out of tears. So I went to the back forty, said I the air I walked past the fence, the Johnson share And when I right sure no one followed me there I got down on my knees, cried Lord, do you
Amen, Amen, Oh Lord, Amen,
morning came early sleep still in my eyes My eldest, John Three, he was the to rise He said, Daddy come quick I got the biggest We jumped to our clothes we realized Could hear the rain pounding the patio And sneaking through cracks onto the floor We danced in the yard til we could it no more Then got down on our knees gave our to the Lord
I sent the boys to their aunts, day before Yesterday morning the wife get there fast The keeps rising it's already past The roof of the but I'm staying pat Now I'm top of the tree where my daddy once And I'm thinking I'm done it don't seem my time I got living to do, to mind Wanna the boys grow, see the next in my line And I bow down, cause there's no land for my knees But I'm out loud now, I'm asking you please Father have mercy, Jesus my pleas Lord up in I'm not ready to leave
Well I'm Jonathan Charles Henry And I've on this farm my ten years and a day Some folks call me Three but I don't it that way Since daddy done traded his own for rain