If you've found your way here, you may already know that my name is Bill and I enjoy writing songs about God. If you did not know that, well now you do. I hope to be faithful with the songs I write. I'm not sure I know how to do that, but I think this website is a start. It contains the lyrics, chord charts, mp3's, even the stories behind the songs. And it is all free to you. So look around. Enjoy. And thanks for stopping by.
(back to album) / (back to music) A Baby Will Come
download chord chart // download mp3 (live recording) (verse 1) The kings of this world Have torn it apart But we can take heart A baby will come
(verse 2) To the hungry and meek To those who grieve To the broken, in need A baby will come
(verse 3) We have known pain We’ve felt death’s sting God, help us believe This baby will come
(verse 4) The angel appeared Said do not fear For peace is here A baby has come
(verse 5) The advent of life Let hope arise We’ve our Savior and Christ The Baby has come
(verse 5) We’ve waited so long God, for Your mighty arm May our doubts ever calm For the Baby has come
(verse 6) The proud will be low The humble will know They’re valued and loved For the Baby has come
(verse 7) Cause the kings of this world Won’t have the last word That, God, is Yours For the Baby has come
(Recorded December 2008 at Crossings in Knoxville, TN) -------------------------------------------------------
In this recording, the song is sung by Emilee Cook. And she, once again, has made my music sound way better than it is.
The Sunday we recorded this, I taught on Mary's Magnificat in Luke 1. As I was researching the social climate of that time and place, I realized just how dire the lives of the Israelites would've been. Between the brutal conquests of the Roman Empire under Caesar Augustus and the obscene taxation of Herod, King of Judea...they found themselves enslaved once again, but this time it was in their very own backyard.
The Promised Land no longer felt like the Promised Land.
And into that climate, a young adolescent Jewish girl was visited by an angel of God and told that she would give birth to a baby boy and His name would be "Salvation"; his very name would "Liberation" for her and her people.
In a moment of joy and restraint, Mary sat down and wrote her Magnificat; a poem that is on one hand personal and introspective, but on the other hand, charged with social and political revolutionary language.
'A Baby Will Come' is more than anything my commentary on Mary's poem.
