Job has everything taken from him, but he endures. The narrator in Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" has a hard time, too. When I wrote this, I wasn't having nearly as hard a time as either one, but I was feeling pretty sorry for myself.
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I lived well with all my money
In a land of milk and honey.
I had lovers, I had friends,
And a house to call my own.
Til the devil said to God,
“Let’s make this man’s life hard,”
Now it’s round the world I roam.
But there’s people just like me
All around the globe.
I am just another Job.
When I try to explain,
Well, it only cause me pain,
How my children and my wife,
Of a fever they did die.
The contagion wasn’t right,
For it let me live that night,
And I just can’t help but cry.
But there’s people just like me
All around the globe.
I am just another Job.
Then a storm it come one day
And it blowed my home away.
I was left without a place
For to hang my ragged clothes.
Then a banker approached me,
Took the deed to my property.
He said there was money that I owed.
But there’s people just like me
All around the globe.
I am just another Job.
Now my soul is worn and bruised
And I’m feeling kind of used,
And an honest day of work,
Well it hardly draws a smile.
But we’re all in our own bind.
Inner peace is hard to find,
So I’ll just watch the clouds awhile.
Cause there’s people just like me
All around the globe.
I am just another Job.
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