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Leroy lives in a cardboard box
Down by the mission bell
Where saints refuse to go
And the sinners wish him well
Forced to carry his own cross
While we drive nails in his coffin
You might say it is routine
It happens far to often
A decorated soldier
Veteran of the war
Who would've thought that he would be
Among the sick and poor?
The preacher-man wags his head
While the rich man turns away
His mother looks on weeping
Teardrops of blood are falling
Jesus sang a Samaritan song
Down by the mission bell
Where saints refused to go
And the sinners wished him well
Forced to carry his own cross
While we drove nails in his coffin
You might say it was routine
It happened far to often
A decorated soldier
Veteran of the war
Who would've thought that he would be
Among the sick and poor?
The preacher-man wagged his head
While the rich man turned away
His mother looked on weeping
Teardrops of blood were falling
Leroy lives in a cardboard box
Down by the mission bell
Where saints refuse to go
And the sinners wish him well
Seems no one down here gives a damn
Though the stone's been rolled away
Our father looks on weeping
Teardrops of blood are falling * ** ***
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What manner of nation would use half of the world's resources, harbor much of the world's wealth, contain a large percentageof the world's educated elite, continue to build some of the world's most expensive (and entirely worthless) religious edifices, provide unwarranted tax breaks for the extremely wealthy top 1% of the population and an entertainment industry which routinely spends over one hundred million dollars to create meaningless motion picture drivel, claim to have the preferred form of government for the entire planet and to stand for truth and justice. . . and yet look the other way as impoverished homeless war veterans, senior citizen's and children are forced to sleep in cardboard boxes, in back alleyways, under bridges, in city parks and on city sidewalks? Will the country which Samuel Clemens referred to as the "land of bibles" go down in history as the one nation beyond all others, that devolved into an utter profane insult to the Creator of the universe?
*FootNote: Inspired by "Tramp On The Street" by Grady & Hazel Cole and "Greenwood" by Peter Yarrow, as performed by King David's beloved friends, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey & Mary Travers.
**FootNote II: "Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49. See also Fleeing Sodom for more details.
***FootNote III: Many modern intellectuals and liberal activists do not believe that the Creator will come down hard on a nation that does not make a concerted effort to help the sick and poor. People who vainly imagine that there is no Creator in control who does to nations as they do unto their own are even more insane than the current Bush Junior administration and the Christian Coalition combined (good luck).
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