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Early Christian Songs

Jesus Died - A video for Easter

The following songs are clearly meant as Christian songs, though several other songs have elements in common with these. For example, Deaf, Dumb and Blind and Give Me Tomorrow were both inspired by Sydney Carter, and In Lonely Melbourne was written after I went with a church group to the Melbourne City Mission, where I was exposed to homeless people for the first time. These can be found in Other Early Songs.

Apocalypse Blues

A song about the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (Revelations 6: 1-8) This song was included on my second CD, Laws of Chance, and later on Gospel Ship as well. You can listen to the audio track from the CD on imeem above.

Or you can watch it performed here. The lyrics are here.

Jesus Died

This is the most overtly Christian song I wrote, during my time as a member of the Baptist Youth Fellowship. I was not happy with the song at the time and stopped singing it until recently, when I revived it for my Gospel Ship CD. I realised the original tune was too jaunty, and made a few changes to make it more appropriate to the words. I also updated some of the lyrics. I think it is now quite a nice song.

My performance can be seen here and a movie made using the audio track from the CD can be seen above.
The lyrics are here.

My Own Life to Lead

A song based on the story of the Good Samaritan, but told from the point of view of the man who does not want to get involved.

Here is my video of the song and the lyrics are here.

Never Look Out of Your Window

Another of the Christian songs I wrote during my adolescent years, while under the influence of the Baptist Youth Fellowship, and, in particular, the songs of Sydney Carter. Typically, it is full of heavy irony. It is inspired by Revelations 3:20: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

I included this on my Gospel Ship CD.

You can hear it on here and the lyrics may be seen here.

The River is Wide

This song continues the theme of the need for ministry through deeds rather than words, a theme that was influenced by Sydney Carter songs such as Judas and Mary and Were You There? It is critical of those who feel being "religious" and attending church every Sunday is enough to make them good Christians.

You can see me singing this song and the lyrics are here.

Vanity of Vanities

This song was inspired by Pete Seeger's Turn Turn Turn. It is based closely on verses from Ecclesiastes (1:1-15).

This song was included on my second CD, Laws of Chance, and later on Gospel Ship as well. You can hear the audio track on imeem above.

You can watch it performed here. The lyrics are here.

What You Gonna Do?

Another of my early songs - about the day of judgment! I guess it was inspired by songs such as Sinner Man.

Here is my video of the song and you can also hear the audio track from the Gospel Ship CD on imeem above. The lyrics are here.

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