Take Me to the Water / Prayer

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Jake Blount is an American musician, scholar and activist based in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who draws upon old-time, bluegrass, and blues influences. He specializes in the traditional music of African Americans and indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. He is also a founding board member of Bluegrass Pride. Blount's debut solo album, Spider Tales, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart. more »

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Take me to the water
Take me to the water
Take me to the water
To be baptized

Take me to the water
Take me to the water
Take me to the water
To be baptized

We gather here today to confess and be cleansed in the eyes of our creator
We gather here to be washed clean of the sins of humanity
We gather here to reject the greed of our forefathers
Here, where dead sea meets withered land
We see the jagged remnants of the old cities piercing the tops of the waves, and they pierce our hearts with the revelation:
Yours and the earth's are all the glories that endure.
And for all our toil, in the end
We must submit to your judgment
As they did.

For it is the fate of all humankind to be judged.
Our forefathers took without giving, took without need -- took things that they had neither desire nor use for, and threw them away.
They covered the face of the ancient planet in newborn desert.
They melted the ice at the ends of the earth, drowned the coast,
Emptied seas and forests of life,
Filled the very oceans with fire,
And were judged.

You see the verdict there, in yonder drowned city.
We, their children, are cursed to wander,
Deprived of land that can sustain us by our own ancestors.
But we keep the stories.
We remember what set man on the downward road.

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