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Hallelujah
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Remorseless, I arrived
too disheveled to kneel and pray
but on time for the celebration
of hallelujah…
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An outcast desperado without a penny
I stood amongst those who had many
blessings children jobs and a handful
of hallelujah…
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I found myself corralled also by pretty
females, young & not, who reached forth to
shake my hand & the jitters disolved in a hail
of hallelujah…
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Courage deployed ~ deployed its soldiers
throughout the fort of my dismay
so I leaped for the chalice, the body, the blood
of hallelujah…
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How does this all add up in this
this church in which I finally prayed
this ghost town through which I’ve been wandering
ahhhhhhh this ghost town called Love
?
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(Copyright Clyde Collins 2011)
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