You Can Call Me John

I’ve been walking down the river with my friends

baptizin people and

washin way their sins

Speaking Aramaic and shoutin real Loud

Bringin God’s word to the Hebrew Crowd

Eatin Those locusts and livin the dream

wash em down with honey cause it makes em sweet

Hangin by the Jordan and waitin all day

For repentant people just to come my way

John, John, John, people call me john.

John, John, John, people call me john.

I ain’t got no Gucci, got a camel hair coat

Smellin like the armpit of a mountain goat

Hair real long and my beard out to here

People call me John and I I’m a mighty seer

John, John, John. People call me John

John, John, John. People call me John

Mamma said an angel came and said I’d come

Jumped at the visit of the HOLY ONE!

Daddy couldn’t talk until the day I came

Had to write down that JOHN IS my NAME

Grew up in the desert near the old dead sea

Livin life strict like it has to be

Dancin to the beat of the Essene crowd,

Gotta keep goin, gotta make God proud.

John, John, John. People call me John

John, John, John. People call me John

Standin all day in the hot, hot sun

Waitin for a visit from the Promised One.

if you’re not here then you just might miss

This Voice crying out in the wilderness!

Come to me, people call me John

See the Lamb of God, you can call me John.

make his highways straight, people call me john,

before it gets too late. you can call me john.

Said a few words to the king’s new wife,

put me in prison, gonna take my life.

chillin down here in a cold dark cell,

gotta keep goin, gotta break this spell.

if you didn’t hear I’m the best there was,

But I can’t hold a candle to my Holy Cuz!

Better not fret, better make things right.

Soon I’m gonna leave, gonna go to the light!

Come to me, people call me John

See the Lamb of God, you can call me John.

make his highways straight, people call me john,

before it gets too late. you can call me john.