Slender Thread of Faith Lyrics

There's a little corner grocery store

Where Murphy spent most of his sixty four years

There's a dollar hangin' by the door

The first dollar that little store ever cleared

Now the neighborhood has changed

There's a big food market just down the way

But Murphy smiles when Murphy sees

That first dollar bill, he still believes

He's hanging by a slender thread of faith

He's sheltered from the bitter wind, the fickle winds of fate

Far above the greedy and the trouble they create

He's hanging by a slender thread of faith

On an Easter Sunday morn

See the minister pray for words to inspire

His flock of thirty four

The trumpets don't play, there is no choir

The church right down the block

Has a TV show and a giant flock

But the Lord will bless them both the same

All that gather in his name are

They're hanging by a slender thread of faith

He's sheltered from the bitter wind, the fickle winds of fate

Far above the greedy and the trouble they create

He's hanging by a slender thread of faith

I know that sometimes it's hard to hang on

But this thread is guaranteed

To be just as long and just as strong

As you will ever need

There's a boy at the edge of town

With a rusty old bike and second hand clothes

But he's happy just to be around

Where he gets that smile, I don't really know

But sometimes when I'm not right

I sit by my window and wait for the sight

Of that penniless boy with the priceless face

He can put my troubles in their place

He's hanging by a slender thread of faith

He's sheltered from the bitter wind, the fickle winds of fate

Far above the greedy and the trouble they create

He's hanging by a slender thread

He's hanging by a slender thread

He's hanging by a slender thread of faith