Amen (Chris Jonat)

Well I'm Jonathan Charles Henry McKay

I've lived on this farm 30 years and a day

Some folks call me Junior but I don't like it that way

Since the storm of '90 when dad left to stay

Mom passed a year later couldn't bear being alone

It's going on ten years I been head of this home

Now I got me a wife and three boys of my own

I work hard, I live clean, I reap what I've sewn

Ain't had rain to speak of in round near a year

Crops searching for water but there ain't nothing near

We need something soon, but it won't come I fear

My children won't eat, wife'll run out of tears

So I went to the back forty, said I needed the air

I walked past the fence, through the Johnson share

And when I made right sure no one followed me there

I got down on my knees, cried "Lord, do you care?"

Amen, Amen, Oh Lord, Amen, Amen

Next morning came early sleep still in my eyes

My eldest, John Three, he was the first to rise

He said, "Daddy come quick I got the biggest surprise"

We jumped to our clothes cause we realized

Could hear the rain pounding the patio door

And sneaking through cracks onto the kitchen floor

We danced in the yard til we could stand it no more

Then got down on our knees gave our thanks to the Lord

I sent the boys to their aunts, day before last

Yesterday morning told the wife "get there fast"

The water keeps rising it's already past

The roof of the house but I'm staying pat

Now I'm top of the tree where my daddy once climbed

And I'm thinking I'm done though it don't seem my time

I got living to do, business to mind

Wanna watch the boys grow, see the next in my line

And I can't bow down, cause there's no land for my knees

But I'm crying out loud now, I'm asking you please

Father have mercy, Jesus hear my pleas

Lord up in heaven I'm not ready to leave

Well I'm Jonathan Charles Henry McKay

And I've lived on this farm my ten years and a day

Some folks call me Three but I don't like it that way

Since daddy done traded his own life for rain