Gary Chapman - Sweet Jesus Lyrics
by Gary ChapmanThere is a river running through this townIt carries the waterThere isn't any way to slow it downOr make it stopI was a baby when the big bridge fellSo I don't rememberBut I have listened to the stories wellAnd so I knowThey were fallingTo the surfaceThey were callingTo their GodAnd their cry wasSweet Jesus, please won't you catch us, save usSweet Jesus, please won't you hear us cryingFishing for luck beneath the bridge that dayA man in his eightiesHe saw it happen and began to prayAs he dove inHe found a mother and a baby boyThey both wouldn't make itThe mama handed him her only joyHe took the childThen he was swimmingLike he was twentyHe made shorelineThen he diedAnd his thoughts wereSweet Jesus, please won't you catch us, save usSweet Jesus, please won't you hear us cryingHe was cryingI miss my mother and the brave old manThough I never knew themThey are the soul inside the man I amI bear their dreamsAnd I am walkingIn their footstepsI am talkingTo their GodAnd my cry isSweet Jesus, please won't you catch us, save usSweet Jesus, please won't you hear us cryingSweet Jesus, please won't you catch us, save usSweet Jesus, please won't you hear us cryingWe're all cryingThere is a river running through this townIt carries the waterThere isn't any way to slow it downOr make it stop
