Long time past
Before you papa
live
Before him papa
live
Before him pa's
papa live --
Long time past
Before them big
tree live
Before them big
tree's papa live --
That time God
live.
And God look on the world
What He done make
And Him heart no lay down.
And He walk about in the town
To see the people
And He sit down in the palaver house
To know the people
And He vex too much.
And God say
"Nev mind.
The people no
hear My Word
The pople no walk
My way
Nev mind.
I going break
the world and lose the people
I going make the
day dark
And the night I
going make hot.
I going make
water that side where land belong
And land that
side where water belong.
And I going make
a new country
And make a new
people."
Now this time
God's one small boy -- Him small pican -- hear God's
Word
And the pican grieve for people
So he go fore God's face
And make talk for him Pa.
"Pa, I come for beg You," so he say
"I come for
beg You,
Don't break the
world
What You done
make.
Don't lose the
people
What You done
care for.
I beg You
Make it I go
I talk to people
I walk with
people
Bye-m-bye they
savvy the way."
And the pican go down
softly softly
And hold God's foot.
So God look on Him small
boy
And Him heart be soft
again
And God say
"Aye
My son,
When you beg me so
I no can vex.
Left me now, but hear me good:
If you go you must be born like a man
And you must live like a man
And you must have hurt and have hunger.
And hear me good:
Men will hate you
And they will flog you
And bye-m-bye they will kill you
And I no going put My hand there."
And the pican say
"I
agree!"
And bye-m-bye God call
Mary
To be Ma for the pican
Now Mary be new wife for
Joseph
And Joseph ain't touch
Mary self
So first time Joseph vex.
But God say
"Nev
mind, Joseph.
This be God palaver."
And Joseph heart lay down.
And God see one king who
try for do good
For all him people
And God say
"Ahah, Now I send My son
For be new king."
And God send star to call the king.
And in a far country
God hear a wise man call
Him name
And God say to the wise
man
"I
send My son to be new wise man,
Go now with the star."
And the star call
And the wise man follow.
And by the waterside
Men lay down for take rest
And they hear fine music
in the sky
Like all the stars make
song,
And they fear.
And all the dark make
bright like day
And the water shine like
fire
And no man can savvy
And they hearts turn over.
But God's angel come
And God's angel say
"Make
glad, all people,
God's pican be born in Bethlehem."
And the people say
"Oh."
And the wise man and the
king
And the country people
come to Bethlehem
And the star come low and
stop.
But when they go for
mansion house
The star no be there.
And when they go for Big
Man's house
The star no be there.
And bye-m-bye when they go
for hotel
The star no be there gain
--
But the wise man say
"Ahah,
the star be by the small house
Where cattle sleep!"
And it was so.
And they find Joseph and
Mary
And the small pican
Fold up in country cloth
And the king bring gold
for gift
And the wise man bring
fine oil
And the country people
bring new rice.
And they look on the God
pican
And every man heart lay
down.
