Name: Nachshon
Duration: P00H03M37S
Description: An old story tells the tale of the first person who had the courage to step in the Red Sea before the waters parted of the Israelites.

Nachshon

from Eking Out A Prophet by Ilan Speizer

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An old story tells the tale of the first person who had the courage to step in the Red Sea before the waters parted of the Israelites.

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I’m just a man, the same as you.
I ain’t no different from the rest of the crew.
I can work the fields, put an ax to wood.
I do my job just like the rest:
I try to do it good.

One day we were slaves, the next we were free,
On the run from a king, with no place to be,
No food to sustain us in the hot desert sun.
We were draggin’ all our asses,
Lord, it wasn’t no fun.

Now the soldiers, they were coming
And we didn’t know what to do.
As they advanced, the Red Sea shoreline
Came on into view.
Everybody stopped there
And the eyes within their heads
Showed a look of disappointment
Make you think that they were dead.

I’m just a man, someone’s child,
And to see this indecision, well it drive me wild!
Big old soldier, big old sea:
I’ll drown before some soldier
Take my head from me!

I looked at the water, jumped right in.
Ain’t no slave like me ever learned to swim.
“There’s a first for everything.” That’s just what I said
As the cold Red Sea water,
Well, it covered my head.

My nose was filled with water
And my eyes they could not see,
And everyone was stopped their
Shouting, “Lunatic!” at me.
Then the one who made this world,
God, generous and true,
She parted all the waters
For my people to pass through.

When the world’s at your back
And you come to the sea,
Only one thing to do, baby,
Take it from me:
Drop everything, jump right in,
Cause the Lord don’t part no water ‘less you try to swim.

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from Eking Out A Prophet, released July 16, 2019

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