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shoes untied, hair uncombed waling the streets so all alone tatted clothes ransack house eating out trash cans day N night OH NO! HE'S NOT ASHAMED NO ONE IS TO BLAME JUST. . . HE'S JUST HOMELESS has a cold, twenty-four with a runny nose stands on a corner everyone disowns ya no place to go, no one goes by him he poses sitting on old cardboard boxes watching the people go by in buses HE IS HOMELESS BUT HE HAS GOT JESUS HOMELESS AND ALTHOUGH HE IS A MESS HE IS STILL BLESS, HE IS JUST HOMELESS OH NO! HE'S NOT ASHAMED NO ONE IS TO BLAME JUST. . . HE'S JUST HOMELESS not fit to live but fit to give you go by him and ya hearing you hear him talkin to himself murmuring passages sounds like scriptures to me and why oh, why is he so happy and why oh, why is he so happy Lord God why or why is he so happy (HUSH......................there is a pause in this song a stillness wait for it wait résumé???) HOMELESS not fit to live but fit to give you go by him and ya hearing you hear him talkin to himself murmuring passages sounds like scriptures to me and why oh, why is he so happy and why oh, why is he so happy Lord God why or why is he so happy no! family none than admit to be his no job no wants to employ him Well!! not even a place to say shelter's keeps him hid or telling he they're full tattered clothes undeserved tooth's in decay why is he so happy pains everywhere why does he sing and shout (a loud) why where does his joy come from HE IS HOMELESS BUT HE HAS GOT JESUS HOMELESS AND ALTHOUGH HE IS A MESS HE IS STILL BLESS, HE IS JUST HOMELESS OH NO! HE'S NOT ASHAMED NO ONE IS TO BLAME JUST. . . HE'S JUST HOMELESS HE HAS God's grace and this is sufficient for him Written Words by James Edward Lee Sr. & The Corinthian Arranged music by The Corinthian July 3 2007(c) From Anthology "Something To Sing Praises"2007(c)

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