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Thread #20784   Message #218512
Posted By: Dale Rose
26-Apr-00 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: On the Jericho Road (Don McCrossan)
Subject: Lyr Add: ON THE JERICHO ROAD (Don McCrossan)
Here it is, #94. Don't think I ever remember hearing the second verse, at least no part of it still exists in my memory. Semi-useless info of the day ~~ Luther Presley was from Pangburn, Arkansas, and is best known for being responsible for the version of When The Saints Go Marching In which is used in churches and as the editor of the Heavenly Highways hymnbook.

On The Jericho Road
Words and music by Donald S. McCrossan, Arr. by Luther G. Presley
Copyright, 1933 by The Stamps-Baxter Music Company., in "Boundless Joy"
From Favorite Songs and Hymns, Stamps-Baxter, 1939

As you travel along . . . . . . . . on the Jericho road,
Does the world seem all wrong . . . . . . . . and heavy your load?
Just bring it to Christ . . . . . . . . your sins all confess,
On the Jericho road . . . . . . . . your heart he will bless.

Chorus
On the Jericho road (on the Jericho road) there's room for just two (there's room for just two)
No more and no less (no more and no less) just Jesus and you (just Jesus and you)
Each burden He'll bear (each burden He'll bear) each sorrow He'll share (each sorrow He'll share
There's never a care (there's never a care) for Jesus is there. (For Jesus is there)

On the Jericho road . . . . . . . . blind Bartimaeus sat,
His life was a void . . . . . . . . so empty and flat;
But Jesus appeared, . . . . . . . . one word bro't him sight,
On the Jericho road . . . . . . . . Christ banished his night.

Chorus

O brother to you . . . . . . . . this message I bring,
Tho hope may be gone, . . . . . . . . He'll cause you to sing;
At Jesus' command . . . . . . . . sin's shackles must fall,
On the Jericho road . . . . . . . . will you answer His call?

Chorus