SERIAL POST CHRISTMAS TUNE

© 1987 LIMB RECORDS/LOST AND FOUND, BOX 305 LEWISTON, NY, 14092. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

IT WAS ABOUT THIS SEASON A FEW YEARS AGO, THE MEN FROM THE EAST CAME TO LET THE KING KNOW: A NEW KING WAS BORN BUT THEY KNEW NOT WHERE. THEY KNEW IT WAS TRUE 'CAUSE THE STAR HAD APPEARED. THE KING SENT THEM OUT HE SAID, "FIND THIS BOY, SO I CAN KNEEL DOWN AND I CAN SHARE IN THE JOY." THEY WENT WITH HIS BLESSING BUT THEY KEPT MOVING ON, BECAUSE GOD TOLD THEM NOT TO LET ON ABOUT HS SON.

BUT THEN A LOUD SOUND WAS HEARD LIKE SOME BITTER WEEPING, NO MOUTHS TO BE FED AND NO CHILDREN ARE SLEEPING. RACHEL IS CRYING LIKE THE PROPHET SAID, BUT SHE FINDS NO COMFORT. ALL HER CHILDREN ARE DEAD.

THE MEN FROM THE EAST WELL THEY WENT BACK HOME THE KING GOT MAD AND JUMPED DOWN FROM HIS THRONE. HE SAID, "SOLDIERS I WANT YOU TO GO INTO TOWN, LOOK HIGH AND LOW AND SEARCH ALL AROUND. SEARCH ALL NIGHT AND SEARCH ALL DAY AND DON'T YOU DARE COME BACK UNTIL YOU'VE DONE WHAT I SAY. TAKE EVERY BOY WHO AIN'T YET TWO, TAKE HIM OUT IN THE STREET DO WHAT I TOLD YOU TO DO."

WE DON'T BLAME THE SOLDIERS AND WE DON'T BLAME GOD. WE DON'T BLAME THE KING BY THE NAME OF HEROD. THE REASON WE TELL YOU ABOUT OUR DARKENED DAYS IS SO YOU CAN SEE WHY IT'S OUR GOD THAT WE PRAISE. WE HAD TO LOSE OUR SON SO WE MIGHT HAVE LIFE, A FAMILY OF THREE'S NOW JUST ME AND MY WIFE. GOD'S SON WAS GOOD BUT SOME LEADERS WERE BAD. I TOO LOST MY SON, AND NOW NO ONE CALLS ME DAD.