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STORY:
A lowly "Drifter" now enters The Marketplace
telling strange stories of a Message he's continuing
to hear from this executed prisoner – who was
recently publicly crucified by the
Roman authorities.

“They killed him
by hanging him on a tree …
they took him down from the tree
and laid him in a tomb …but God
raised him from the dead…”
– from Acts 10: 39 &
Acts 13:29-30 (NIV)

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LYRICS:
There’s a tree on a hill
Near old Jerusalem and
They say there a man I knew
Has died

But they say when he came here
He called me by name now thev've
Nailed him to a cross and
Had him crucified

On a tree
On a hill near
Old Jerusalem

They say he died

There’s a hole in the rock
Near old Jerusalem and they
Say there they lay his body down

But the say when they tried there
To seal him inside there the heavens
Shook and thunder rent
That holy ground

In a hole
In the rock near
Old Jerusalem

They laid him down

Still here
Within my soul
He’s callin’ – “Come on home”
But how can it be when

They’ve laid him in the ground

Yet a joy
Like I’ve never known
Is callin’ me – “Come On Home!”
Oh, how I’m longin’
To go home

Still I feel it
Deep within
I hear – He’s callin’
But how can it be when

They’ve nailed him to a cross

Yet a hope
Like I’ve never known
Is callin’ me “Come On Home!”

Oh, how I’m longin’
To go home

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from Act 1 - The Messenger​.​The Rock Opera., released March 11, 2019
,
THE GREATEST HUMAN DRAMA OF ALL TIME
The Journey of The Apostle Paul – in Two Acts.
60 original new compositions – for Stage & Screen.
From USAgency Entertainment (BMI).

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CREDITS:
All Music, Story, Songs, & Lyrics © 2012-2022 RWGathman (BMI).
Written & Created Expressly for "The Messenger. The Rock Opera."
© 2012-2022 USAgency, Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved worldwide.

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