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Composer: Michael McLean, Merrill Jenson

Michael McLean - The Shepherd (You Were Not There in Bethelehem) lyrics



The flock was more than peaceful
The night was dark and deep
The stillness wrapped around me
I drifted off to sleep
And when my friends awoke me
Oh, what a tale they had to tell

They said the angels told them
About a newborn King
They had a star to guide them
They heard the heavens sing
They said that when they found Him
They knew they'd never be the same

Somehow I did believe them,
Though everything I knew
Said I should not believe them
This story can't be true
But there was something magic
In the air
That made me feel as if
I had been there

I asked a thousand questions
Their answers startled me
The more I heard,
The more I thought I knew
This cannot be
And then the struggle started,
My head was wrestling with my heart.

Why would a God from Heaven
Come to the world this way?
Why in a lowly stable
Would the Messiah lay?
I shook my head and asked them
To tell the story one more time

Yes I did believe them
Though I'd not seen a thing
I did not go to Bethlehem
Or hear the angels sing
But there was something magic
In the air
That made me feel as if
I had been there

I knew that as the world moves on
through time
There would be more stories
just like mine
About the souls who've chosen
to believe
In something that they never
got to see

Do you think you'll join us
Though you've not seen a thing?
You were not there in Bethlehem
To hear the angels sing
But if you feel the spirit
In the air
Then just like me you'd know

That He was here
He was here
The King of kings
And Lord of lords was here
(He was here)
He was here, he was here
(He was here)
And He will come again,
For He was here.
(The King of kings)
(The Lord of lords)
-(He was here)
(The King of kings)
(and Lord of Lords was here)
-(He was here)
(The King of kings)
(The Lord of lords)
-(He was here)
(The King of kings)
(and Lord of Lords was here)

And He will come again
For He was here
For He was here
Songs list of album: The Forgotten Carols (1991)
         Title Rating
01   The Innkeeper (Let Him In) lyrics  
4.70
02   Homeless (Like the Christ Child Was) lyrics  
4.81
03   The Shepherd (You Were Not There in Bethelehem) lyrics  
4.68
04   Handel's Dream [Handel] lyrics  
4.50
05   Mary Let Me Hold Her Baby lyrics  
4.79
06    The Dance (A Music Box and an Old Corsage) lyrics Add lyrics   -
07   Joseph (I Was Not His Father, He Was Mine) lyrics  
4.81
08   I Cannot Find My Way/Three Kings lyrics  
4.93
09   I Cry the Day I Take the Tree Down lyrics  
4.96
10    Homeless Reprise lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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