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The Song of the Vineyard

from Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose

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This is a metrical paraphrase of Isaiah 5:1-7.

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My truelove had a vineyard upon a hill so high,
He dug the ground and planted the best that you can buy,
He hollowed out a winepress and built a wall and tower;
At harvest-time he gathered but every grape was sour.

Now find the guilty party, you masters of the law;
My truelove in his vineyard could not have laboured more.
A vineyard so ungrateful with grapes so sour and few;
When so much was expected: what shall my truelove do?

My truelove has decided he'll break the vineyard wall,
And hungry beasts will enter and trample on it all;
He'll make of it a wasteland where nettles grow again,
And when my truelove orders the clouds will never rain.

My truelove's name is Jesus; the vineyard is the church.
He gave to her a pure heart all free from stain and smirch.
She changed her love for bloodshed; he'll come and purge her stain;
Lord, in the vineyard's corner may some true vines remain.

Words and music by Marnanel Thurman

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from Cheerful Voices, released December 13, 2013
voice, piano
Words and music by Marnanel Thurman, piano arrangement by Kathryn Rose.
Image from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vineyards_Hvar.jpg

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Plays the horn, piano, organ, serpent, portable harmonium and just about anything else that doesn't fight back too vigorously.

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