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Thread #97755   Message #1929276
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Jan-07 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Picture of Jesus (Tom T. Hall)
Subject: Lyr Add: PICTURE OF JESUS (Tom T. Hall, Dixie Hall
Funny, I don't hear anything when I go to that web page. However, there is another page at the same site that has a clickable link that makes the song play. (See below.)

Lyrics copied from the web site of Blue Circle Records:

A PICTURE OF JESUS
Written by Tom T. Hall (BMI) and Dixie Hall (BMI)

1. On a journey through the mountains of Virginia,
I stopped awhile to visit with a friend.
She ran the country store like her daddy had before.
Nothing much had changed since way back then.
I stood looking at a wall of faded pictures,
Some of them beginning to turn brown:
John and Uncle Jim up there with Loretta Lynn
And everybody who had been through town,

CHORUS: Pictures on the wall, famous people one and all,
Their pictures were hanging on the wall.

2. Among them all, I saw the face of Jesus
With the big celebrities we know so well.
When I asked her why, she gave me this reply:
She said, "That's a story that I love to tell."
She said it was a year ago come Sunday,
An old man with a bible came to call.
He said, "Do you love Jesus?" She said, "Yes, sir,"
But he just looked up sadly at the wall.

CHORUS: Pictures on the wall, famous people on the wall,
No picture of Jesus on the wall.

3. Well, full of shame she ran to get a picture.
She put Jesus in the middle of the store.
She turned to thank the stranger for his wisdom.
There was just a patch of sunlight on the floor.

CHORUS: Pictures on the wall, famous people one and all,
A picture of Jesus on the wall.

[Sung by The Daughters of Bluegrass (Jeanette Williams, Donica Christiensen, Heather Berry) on "Back to the Well;" and by Heather Berry on "To a Dove." There is a generous sound sample on this page.]