Mary And Joseph
by Bert Jansch
From the album: Santa Barbara Honeymoon
Track 2 of 12 on Santa Barbara Honeymoon (1975).
Duration: 3:21
Lyrics for Mary And Joseph
Sweet Mary and Joseph in a rocket machine Were a-travelling the void with not a star to be seen Deep out there in space with no one to help them Not a gentle kind of place After millions of miles came a bright silver star With the planets and the moons all arrayed near and afar Now there's hope for the future, a place to lay down The Son of God's coming soon Now the planet of the fire, he would not let them land And the planet of the water, Lord, he couldn't understand But the green pastoral earth, he beckoned them down They came a-singing into the morn That night they took a shelter in a holiday inn And Mary in the labour her pains did begin And her baby was born to the sound Of the truck drivers blowing in their horns Far from the east came the criminals to press From the west came the president and his egg-smoking rest From the north came the queen From the south came the black brothers and their desert dream