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Nice Enough Girls ~ from House of Bread ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: Not a grandson from Orpah or a granddaughter from Ruth but still, they're nice enough girls
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Featuring the Music of. By Lynn Maudlin, © Moonbird Music Co. 2001. My life is not what I expected it to be -. Across the Jordan I have raised a family. My boys grow up and Moabites is what they marry. But I guess they're nice enough girls. I planned for a wedding that would take a week or two. And all my friends would come and make a big to do -. And we'd drink and laugh and weep and sing and drink and hullabaloo. Because they're nice enough girls. Chilion went and married Orpah. And Mahlon married Ruth.
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Walk On By ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: Lord, teach me to walk on by 'Cause temptation is strong and falling is sweet But I'll walk on by
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Featuring the Music of. By Lynn Maudlin, © Moonbird Music Co. 1986. You don't want to know my name, you don't really want my number. You don't want to see me again - why bother to lie? We are just two strangers, strangely attracted to each other. And the night is cool but you are warm and so am I. Come on down, down, down - you can sit here beside me. And I won't tell your girlfriend, I won't even tell your wife. Cause I won't even be here, the sun rises behind me. Cause I'm going to walk on by, Lord.
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Boaz' Song ~ from House of Bread ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: I have watched the gleaners working through my fields, I have noticed you among them, modest and foreign, And I have seen you lonely - and I know how that feels
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Featuring the Music of. By Lynn Maudlin, © Moonbird Music Co. 2000. I have watched the gleaners working through my fields. I have noticed you among them, modest and foreign. And I have seen you lonely - and I know how that feels. As you're following the maidens and ignoring all the young men. You've come to us a widow with the mother of your groom. I hear you would not leave her to stay in your own country. And though she now is bitter at the losses she's accrued. Your people, O God. Your people, my God.
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High Frontier (for the Space Shuttle Columbia) ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music:
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Featuring the Music of. By Lynn Maudlin, Moonbird Music Co. 2003. Build me a silvery bird – I’ll fly her straight through the blue. Riding a column of fire – I’ll be the hands and eyes and ears for all of you. Give me a far horizon – I’ll fly the curve of the earth. And I will measure the starfields. And calculate their height and depth and length and girth. I need a high frontier – I need the room to soar. I long to walk in space, in time – God built me to explore. Build me a silvery bird—.
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Shepherd Me ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: comfort me with Your hand of kindness, comfort me with Your rod
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Featuring the Music of. By Lynn Maudlin, © Moonbird Music Co. 2003. Shepherd me - comfort me with Your hand of kindness, comfort me with Your rod. For I lose the path - then I lose the way. Call me back to You. Shepherd me - feed me with the words of freedom, feed me with Your truth. For I'm full of lies - I've grown fat with lies. Call me back to You. Pull the burrs out of my wool. Draw the poison from my wound. Speak the word and I will be made whole. For I put my trust in You. Call me back to You.
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Nothing to Plow but Rocks ~ from House of Bread ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: This is the house of bread, but we're starving now, a wife and two hungry kids, will you tell me how am I to provide? In this famine - with nothing to plow
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Featuring the Music of. House of Bread / Nothing To Plow But Rocks. By Lynn Maudlin, Moonbird Music Co. 2001. This is the house of bread, but we're starving now. A wife and two hungry kids, will you tell me how am I to provide? In this famine - with nothing to plow but rocks. I've got this piece of land here in Bethlehem. I'd leave it to my sons but they must grow to men to inherit -. They've got to survive - and there's nothing to plow but rocks. Big rocks, small rocks. Hot wind, dry wind.
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I Am Bitter ~ from House of Bread ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: God give me strength I need to go on, God give me strength for the journey; I must return to my homeland, tonight I'll dream of Bethlehem
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Featuring the Music of. By Lynn Maudlin, © Moonbird Music Co. 2001. I am grieved and I am bitter. God has dealt harshly with me. Elimelech was no great husband. But he was good enough for me. This creeping blight has taken Mahlon. And Chilion was next to go. The girls got sick but they recovered. I have my health, but my spirit's low. How do I find the strength to go on? How do I find the strength to live? The girls are weak but they think I'm strong. But I've got nothing left to give. HOUSE OF BREAD RUTH.
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By Bye, So Long ~ from House of Bread ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: Bye bye, so long - Naomi don't you cry, Farewell, be strong - Jordan River divides
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Featuring the Music of. Bye Bye, So Long. By Lynn Maudlin, © Moonbird Music Co. 2001. Mama, I think you're right - I'm going home. I don't like these widow's weeds. And I'm too young to be alone. Light a candle, say a prayer for me. Light a candle and set me free. Bye bye, so long - Naomi don't you cry. Farewell, be strong - Jordan River divides. Been a long time since I've seen my kin. My brothers will be grown. But they'll take their big sister in. Until I find me a new home. Gonna miss your gentle ways.
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The Gleaning Song ~ from House of Bread ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music: It's the harvest, you can glean, our law provides a way for us
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Featuring the Music of. By Lynn Maudlin, © Moonbird Music Co. 2002. Mama, how shall we eat and how shall we live. Now we have returned to the place of your birth? I'd rather not beg, and I won't be a whore. Is there some piece of land I could plant, I could work? It's the harvest, you can glean. Our law provides a way for us. What does it mean, "glean"? When they go into the fields to harvest grain. They cannot work the corners [the corners? The corners feed widows and orphans. And you pick up the grain.
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The Convenience of Memory ~ lyrics and music by Lynn Maudlin ~ Moonbird Music:
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Featuring the Music of. The Convenience of Memory. By Lynn Maudlin, Moonbird Music Co. 1984. The convenience of memory never ceases to amaze me. What we choose to remember, what we choose to forget. My parents always loved me, and my lover ne'er betrayed me. So I guess it's just my problem, I guess it's all in the mindset. My father says my attitude has never been the right one. He thinks that I'm a cynic, he sees me as obsessed. By all the wrong dimensions in this world of many angles.
