Story Behind The Song

This song was recorded and released by me on an internet radio station... Christian Blues .Net and charted #3 (behind 2 established Gospel Blues artists) by fans.

Song Description

Let's people know that Jesus has experienced all of the emotional downs common to humanity

Lyrics

Jesus Knows the Blues
Words & Music by: Jonathan McCaskell

Chorus: Does Jesus know the blues? (Yes, He does)
Did Jesus suffer for you? (Yes, He did)
Everything you go through ? Jesus gone through it too
Pain so intense, makes your senses dull (He knew it all)
In the desert ? the garden ? the Place ? of the Skull
V1: Forty days ? forty nights ? with no food - not one bite,
satan came ? dat snake said ? ?turn dem stones into bread?.
Upon a high peak satan carried our Lord ? showed Him all of the pleasures this world affords.
?I will give it all to You ? power and fame ? Yours for the takin? ? just You worship my name?.
O don?t Jesus know ? temptation blues?

½ Chorus: Does Jesus know the blues? (Yes, He does)
Did Jesus suffer for you? (Yes, He did)

V2: In the garden that night ? He was betrayed - Deep in distress ? deep as death.
His boys He took with Him ? all fall asleep - Spirits are willin? ? O but dat flesh is so weak.
Father, O Father ? take dis cup away ? Sweat drops of blood fall so hard Jesus pray.
Not My will Father -Thy will be done ? O but Father, help Me Father now ? Can?t I just run?
O don?t Jesus know ? run-away blues?

Instrumental break

V3: They trumped up some charges ? liars took the stand,
Thumbs down all around for an innocent man.
They beat Him ? mock Him ? spit in His Face ? Whip Him ? strip Him ? O His disgrace.
In His Hands and His Feet - drove 3 rusty nails,
Stretched Him ? hung Him on rugged crossed rails.
?Eli ,Eli, lama sabach-thani? O but Father forgive them, they don?t know what they do to Me.
O don?t Jesus know ? dyin? blues?
Repeat Chorus ? Vamp out