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Joe Parker

from Family Matters by Billy Crain

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Joe Parker was a guy that worked for my mom for years. He took all her emotional outbursts better than anyone else could. This song is about his funeral and the things I learned from it....

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Joe Parker

Black suit taking in the noonday heat
I walked into church and took a seat
Feeling like a sitting duck on the water
We were from different sides of the track
I was white and he was black
He was gone to heaven I couldn’t have been much farther
They started preaching all about civil rights
And jumping in and finishing the fight
I could feel the sweat dripping underneath my collar
But we all had one thing we shared in common
We all knew one day the end was coming
So we paid our last respects to Joe Parker

What do you want it to say on your tombstone
When there’s nothing left of you but a bag of bones
In that little dash between your birth and death
Did you fight for the poor fight for the oppressed
Did you struggle with the devil where you put to the test
Did you give with your right hand and not tell your left
Did you love your neighbor and wash his feet
Or ignore the bum on the corner of your street
Did you turn the other cheek or slap back harder
I heard a whole lot of good stuff that day
About a man who wasn’t scared to say
I believe in Jesus and his name was Joe Parker

Well I walked back to the car a brand new man
With a lot of gratitude and a change of plans
The future couldn’t look any brighter
Now that’s one hell of a legacy
That he left behind for you and me
And I owe it all to my friend Joe Parker


B. Crain
11/07/2012

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from Family Matters, released September 14, 2015
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