Amen Lyrics - After The Flood - Clumsy Lovers

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 

Aint had rain to speak of in round near a year 

Crops searching for water but there aint 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