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Isaiah 40:3: “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

He is a LINK to a best-forgotten video for this song, one overlooked far too long for consignment to obscurity in the archive.

A look at Matthew Chapter 3 (John the Baptist) led me back to the source of the scripture cited therein. It is found in Isaiah, and is just as relevant for Christ’s soon Second Advent as it was for the first. Isaiah 40 both begins and ends with memorable verses.

This is banjo song #2. I mentioned my conceit of there only existing 3 banjo genres (a gross oversimplification). (1) “Strumming” (2) “Three-Finger Fast Earl Scruggs” and (3) “Appalachian Dirge.” I planned to combine (2) and (3) on this song, but it wound up mostly (3), so I speeded it up. Instruments are OK with this, but the vocals are not, and have to be rerecorded.

Here is a LINK to a YouTube video featuring road construction footage in California, “the desert.”

LYRICS

Isaiah 40

8 God’s

4 Payback is over. We’re

4 Headin’ for fields of clover. God

4 Said to Isaiah, speak

4 Com for tably, to Je-

4 rusalem, and tell her that her

4 Warfare is all done. Her in-

4 iquity is pardoned, she must make a

4 way for the Father’s Son. So make a

4 Way! Make a way! Blaze a

4 Trail, through the desert land. Our Re-

4 deemer, soon shall be among us. Our sal-

4 vation is at hand!

6 The grass

4 Withereth, and the flower; it

4 Fadeth away, but the

4 Word of God shall stand forever, for-

4 ever and a day. The

4 Word made flesh will be at your door, pre-

4 pare to meet your Lord. He’s

4 Got a job of work to do, and He’s

4 Bringing His reward. So make a

4 Way! Make a way! Blaze a

4 Trail, through the desert land. Our Re-

4 deemer, soon shall be among us. Our sal-

4 vation is at hand!

6 He shall

4 Feed His flock like a shepherd, and

4 Gather them with His arm, and

4 Nestle them in His bosom, and

4 Keep them from all harm. And though we

4 Are beneath consideration when

4 Measured against His might, we shall

4 Mount up with wings of eagles in the

4 Presence of His light!

6 So make a

4 Way! Make a way! Blaze a

4 Trail, through the desert land. Our Re-

4 deemer, soon shall be among us. Our sal-

4 vation is at hand! Make a

4 Way! Make a way! Blaze a

4 Trail, through the desert land. Our Re-

4 deemer, soon shall be among us. Our sal-

9 vation is at hand!