Ruth ft. Agnes Beth Lyrics

A silhouette black as jet

Against the evening sky

Four of them from Bethlehem

Where fields are cracked and dry

A woman and her husband

Two boys almost grown

Strangers in a stranger land

Our gods not like their own

Bitter herbs their lord decides

Two made one he soon divides

Marriage marriage widowed brides

Daughter daughter go and live

My womb has no more sons to give

Widows all widows three

One east one west and that leaves me

Gods of wood gods of stone

A god unseen on fearful throne

Gods of clay gods of dirt

A God perhaps who heals the hurt

Naomi Naomi wait for me

Where you are I would be

And if you die I die with thee

Hill and plain amber grain

As far as eye can see

Kinsman's land redeemer's hand

Might he take note of me

A stranger in a stranger's place

A stranger's God my own

Go she says and plead for grace

Like mercy you have shown

I take the cover from his feet

He shivers stares then smiles sweet

Shelters me with his own sheet

Brother brother sit down here

Naomi sells her land this year

If you want it make your claim

And raise up seed in nephew's name

Land of honey land of milk

Land so marred by foreign ilk

Land to graze land to plant

Oh take it for yourself I can't

Naomi Naomi who could guess

A suckling child at your breast

Son of Ruth and Boaz blest