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Well, after writing no music for a very long time, I’ve put together another in the last couple of days. It recounts the testimony of the spies Moses sent into Canaan, and as the post title suggests, is called “The Witness of Ten.” Not sure when I’ll have a recording available, but here are the lyrics:

ONE:
there is a chosen band
nearing a promised land
the land has come in sight
the time has come to fight
send in spies to see
the riches of our dreams
through the eyes of a dozen men
this is the witness of ten:

CHORUS:
It’s a green green land,
it’s a good good land
It’s a land of promises
it’s a land that swallows us alive
We will not survive
It’s a land of giants
it’s a land of violence
Why’d you bring us here to die?
This is their land
this is not our land
May our souls be damned
We won’t take this land
from your hand
We’d go back to old slavemasters
Make return to past disasters
Do you understand what we confess
We won’t enter in to your rest
Let the grumbling begin
This is the witness of ten

TWO:
there are a couple men
trying to counter them
“the land is promised us
the Lord will fight for us
the Canaanites are stew
they’ll be bread for you”
but who gives heed to a couple men
against the witness of ten?

[Chorus; then continue to finale]

FINALE:
I’ve borne with this generation
How long will you test My patience?
Do you wish to die [in] this wilderness?
You won’t enter in to My rest
Let the judgment begin
All for the witness of ten
Let the judgment begin
All for the witness of ten
Let the judgment begin
All for the witness of ten

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