Cry Of A Tiny Babe
Bruce Cockburn

Mary grows a child without the help of a man
Joseph get upset because he doesn't understand
Angel comes to Joseph in a powerful dream
Says God did this and you're part of his scheme
Joseph comes to Mary with his hat in his hand
Says forgive me I thought you'd been with some other man
She says what if I had been - but I wasn't anyway and guess what
I felt the baby kick today
Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption rips through the surface of time
In the cry of a tiny babe
The child is born in the fullness of time
Three wise astrologers take note of the signs
Come to pay their respects to the fragile little king
Get pretty close to wrecking everything
'Cause the governing body of the whole land
Is that of Herod, a paranoid man
Who when he hears there's a baby born King of the Jews
Sends death squads to kill all male children under two
But that same bright angel warns the parents in a dream
And they head out for the border and get away clean
Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption rips through the surface of time
In the cry of a tiny babe
There are others who know about this miracle birth
The humblest of people catch a glimpse of their worth
For it isn't to the palace that the Christ child comes
But to shepherds and street people, hookers and bums
And the message is clear if you've got ears to hear
That forgiveness is given for your guilt and your fear
It's a Christmas gift you don't have to buy
There's a future shining in a baby's eyes
Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption


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  12 String Warm-Up/The Trains Don't Run Here Anymor...   13th Mountain   A Dream Like Mine   A Life Story   A Long-Time Love Song   A Montreal Song   Actions Speak Louder   After The Rain   All Our Dark Tomorrows   All The Diamonds In The World   All The Ways I Want You   All's Quiet On The Inner City Front   All's Quiet On The Inner City Front   Always Look on the Bright Side of Life   And We Dance   Anything Anytime Anywhere   Anything Can Happen   Arrows Of Light   Avalon, My Home Town   Badlands Flashback   Badlands Flashback   Bearded Folksinger   Beautiful Creatures   Berlin Tonight   Bicycle Trip   Birmingham Shadows   Blueberry Hill   Bone In My Ear   Boundless   Bright Sky   Broken Wheel   Burden Of The Angel, Beast   Burn   Cader Idris [Instrumental]   Call It Democracy   Call Me Rose   Can I Go With You   Candy Man's Gone   Candy Man's Gone   Celestial Horses   Change Your Mind   Child of the Wind   Christmas Song   Civilization And Its Discontents   Clocks Don't Bring Tomorrow, Knives Don't Bring Go...   Closer To The Light   Creation Dream   Déjà Vu   Dancing In Paradise   Deep Lake   Deer Dancing Round a Broken Mirror [Instrumental]   Deja Vu   Dialogue With The Devil   Dialogue With The Devil (Or Why Don't We Celebrate...   Different When It Comes To You   Don't Feel Your Touch   Don't Forget About Delight   Don't Have To Tell You Why   Don't Feel Your Touch   Don't Forget About Delight   Don't Have To Tell You Why   Down Here Tonight   Down In Yon Forest   Down to the Delta   Driving Away   Dust And Diesel   Dweller By A Dark Stream   Early On One Christmas Morn   Embers of Eden   Embers Of Eden, The   Everywhere Dance   Facist Architecture   Fall   Fascist Architecture   Fascist Architecture [Architecture Fasciste]   Feast Of Fools   Feet Fall On The Road   Festival Of Friends   Five Fifty-One   For The Birds   Foxglove   Free To Be   Gavin's Woodpile   Gavin's Woodpile   Get Up Jonah   Gifts   Go Tell It On The Mountain   God Bless The Children   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen   God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen   God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen   Going To The Country   Going Up Against Chaos   Golden Serpent Blues   Gospel Of Bondage   Great Big Love   Grim Travellers   Grim Travellers [Live][*]   Grim Travellers [Sombres Voyageurs]   Guerilla Betrayed   Guerrilla Betrayed   Hand-Dancing   Happy Good Morning Blues   He Came From The Mountain   High Winds White Sky   Hills Of Morning   Homme Brulant   Hoop Dancer   How I Spent My Fall Vacation   I Saw Three Ships   I Wanna Dance With You   I'm Gonna Fly Some Day   I'm Gonna Fly Some Day   Iesus Ahatonnia (The Huron Carol)   If A Tree Falls   If I Had A Rocket Launcher   If I Had a Rocket Launcher [*]   In The Falling Dark   Incandescent Blue   Indian Wars   Islands in a Black Sky   Isn't That What Friends Are For? 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The Pipes. [Instrumental]   The Rose Above The Sky   The Rose Above the Sky [La Rose Au-Dessus du Ciel]   The Strong One   The Thirteenth Mountain   The Trouble With Normal   The Whole Night Sky   This Is Baghdad   Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon   Tibetan Side Of Town   Tie Me At The Crossroads   To Fit In My Heart   To Raise The Morning Star   Together Alone   Tokyo   Totem Pole   Train in the Rain   Tramps In The Street   Trickle Down   Tried And Tested   Tried And Tested [Éprouvé Et SuréprouvÃ...   Tropic Moon   Understanding Nothing   Up On The Hillside   Use Me While You Can   Vagabondage   Wait No More   Waiting For A Miracle   Waiting For The Moon   Wanna Go Walking   What About The Bond   What About the Bond [et le Lien Alors]   What About The Bond?   When The Sun Falls   When The Sun Goes Nova   When You Give It Away   Where The Death Squad Lives   Wise Users   Wondering Where The Lions Are   World Of Wonders   Yanqui Go Home   You Don't Have To Play The Horses   You Don't Have To Play The Horses   You Get Bigger As You Go   You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance   You Point To The Sky   You've Never Seen Everything   You've Never Seen Everything

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