The King Is Here!

Date: July 1977

The King is here! The King is here!
Were shouts heard through the town
By men and women, boys and girls
For miles and miles around

I wish I�d known, I heard some say
For sleeping in my bed was I 
And deep in slumber I heard not
while they did joyfully cry

How sad and hurt I was to miss
The splendor He arrayed
If I had known the news before 
A nightly vigil I�d have made

But others knew, I wondered how 
For it was stillness of the night
What was the light they saw to guide
A beacon ray of light?

But beacons were in short supply
So that could hardly be
To furnish them for all who�d gone
Was an impossibility

But suddenly my mind did flash
A scripture case alive
The parable that Jesus spoke
In Matthew twenty-five.

I was among the foolish virgins
who�d left their oil run out
The time is past and I am sad
with others all about

O Jesus why was I so blind
A question �How�d they see?�
The answer I received from Him
�They put their trust in Me�

I know you�re wondering how I knew
The King had come and gone
You see before I went to sleep
I left my tape recorder on.

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