"The Jericho Road" is a a song based on a favorite topic of discussion between Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ambassador Andrew Young - how to balance staying the course of planned service with responding to those in immediate need along the way.

The Jericho Road

There's a beggar at the crossroads
Stretching forth his hands
Begging you to save him
Give all that you can
His face is pinched and haggard
You can feel his pain
Do you stop and help him
Or turn the other way?

It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
Paved with love and understanding

We know that we can never help every soul we meet
And it hurts the heart to know that when we lay our heads to sleep
We do our best to pass along our courage, hopes and dreams
To our children, friends and neighbors and that beggar on the street

It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
Paved with love and understanding

We're all in the hands of God
And it's His grace and mercy
That helps us to carry on
Heavenly and earthly

It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
Paved with love and understanding

It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
It takes love to pave that Jericho Road
Paved with love and understanding

words and music by Amanda Colleen Williams with input from Ambassador Young.

Jericho Road Acoustic

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Not Your Life

The song expresses the inner longing to love and be loved, and the understanding that to truly let go, one has to be willing to risk suffering and loss.

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Wicked Game

Words and music Pete Garfinkel and Amanda Colleen Williams.  Copyright 2017 Hillbilly Culture LLC administrator Bluewater Music Services Corp.  Contact for licensing.  


All Of My Heart

Pete Garfinkel
Amanda Wiliams


Learning to read the glint in my mama’s eye
The secret recipe for grandma’s pie
A best friend’s smile
A first love’s scorn
Crying wishing I’d never been born

Pre Chorus
I don’t know where I would start
If I tried to show you
All of my heart

Chorus
Cause it only hurts when it’s beatin’ 
And it always knows a little too well
It’s got a way of giving and bleeding
And leading me through hell
And I don’t where I’d start
If I tried to show you all of my heart

Pipe tobacco and a autumn sky
Pot of beans cooking on a wood stove fire
Chestnut burrs sticking in my feet
One way trip down memory street

Repeat Pre Chorus and Chorus

They say that pain is just a part of life
Lessons learned I should take it all in stride
Well that sure is an easy thing to say
When you don’t know what a heart has locked away

Repeat Pre Chorus and Chorus

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All of My Heart

"I Am Saved" is the debut radio single from awarded songwriter Amanda Colleen Williams whose writing credits include Grammy® nominated "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)" George Jones / Garth Brooks duet and "She's Tired of Boys" written with Garth Brooks and recorded on his Billboard #1 Top Country Album Man Against Machine with Trisha Yearwood.

"I Am Saved" was written with Pete Garfinkel as part of a collection of songs called Hillbilly Collection exploring themes found in Amanda's East Tennessee upbringing and the New York Times Best Selling book Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance.

Available for Country Radio airplay via CDX Nashville and from all music retailers April 2020. https://www.amandacolleenwilliams.com/

Hillbilly Collection

I Am Saved Sample

Here's a basic warm up exercise called a Vaccai that singers use to loosen up their voices before practice and performance.  You can sing along even if you don't know Italian by singing "e" "ah" instead of the words.  Original composer was Nicola Vaccai.

Songlife

Scales Vaccai

I Am Saved

Pete Garfinkel
Amanda Williams

I wanna shine the light on something more
Take a hold on my future my future before
Time flies by one moment to the next
Until it's time to die
Like we all do

What's it's gonna take for you
To slow down and see the path

Chorus
Come on take my hand
All fears are washed away and
I will live forever amen
Now I'm gonna say, now I'm gonna it say it plain
Never gonna be the, never gonna be the same
I am saved

I wanna wake up with the morning dew
Look around and see plain what I'm supposed to do
There's always a way to make the world a better place
I wanna be one the shining in your grace
On and on
One day soon I'll be home

Come on take my hand
All fears are washed away and
I will live forever amen
Now I'm gonna say, now I'm gonna say it plain
Never gonna be the never gonna be the same
I am saved


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I Am Saved

"You don't accidentally end up off the grid." - from "Appalachia Kid" words and music Pete Garfinkel / Amanda Colleen Williams

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