Long to Belong

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

The Armpit Song - Jan 1977

I am just an armpit in the body of Christ
Spreading that good fragrance that (sniff sniff) smells so nice
To some it smells like BO but to me its paradise
'cause I am just an armpit in the body of Christ

I don't use no Right Guard to water down the word
When I talk about the Shepherd, I smell just like the herd
I don't veil the gospel - no 5-Day pads for me
Just take one sniff just a little whiff and you'll shout I believe

Well you may think and armpit's not a too important part
It may not be too pretty but it's so close to your heart
Oh I love that pungent odor so fragrant and so sweet
I'm proud to be an armpit . . . heaven help the feet

1977 Tapes Vol 1

The Armpit Song

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Roamin' Free - Sep 1974

Maybe you'll see me in the coastlands
Maybe you'll see me out to sea
Maybe you'll see me in the desert sands
But you'll always see me roamin' free

Roamin' free, life's my friend. Roamin' free like the wind
and I'm right where I wanna be
Roamin' free, on my way, roamin' free day by day
And come tomorrow I'll be roamin' free

Maybe you'll find me in the nighttime
Maybe you'll find me in the day
Maybe you'll find me watchin' the sunset
But you'll always find me somewhere I can pray

Maybe you'll catch me in Missouri
Maybe you'll catch me in LA
Maybe you'll catch me back in Boston
But you'll always catch me somewhere I can't stay

1977 Tapes Vol 2

Roamin' Free

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Psalm 72 - ~ 1974 

Blessed be the Lord God,
the God of Israel
who alone works wonders
and blessed be his glorious name forever
and may the whole earth be filled with his glory
Amen and Amen. Amen.

1977 Tapes Vol 3

Psalm 72

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

I'm Human - Sep 1974

Life's so big and goes so slow
I'm human but don't let them know
All the games that I play through
Trying to prove that I am you.

Living like a newborn child
Thinking I'm so free and wild
Putting on the same façade
Live like me and look like God

Oh, hold me closer Lord
Don't let me keep us apart
Oh, hold me closer Lord
Hold me closer to your heart

It's killing me, I'm dying Lord
Playing games I can't afford
Learning words that I can't say
Writing songs I just can't play

Life's become a shallow dream
An empty plot, a worthless scheme
Lord I can't pretend no more
Drop my knees to the floor

Change my heart, change my ways
Change these fabricated days
Fill my heart again with truth
Like your days of my youth

Seems so strange to say hello
really mean it and want to know
how you're doing and would you share
a few minutes with me in prayer

I'm Human

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Psalm 95 - Aug 1975

O Come let us sing unto the Lord
Let us make a joyful noise unto our God
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving
Let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise

For the Lord our God is a great God
And a king who is above all kings
In his hands are the depths of the oceans
the height of the mountains, the width of the skies

O Come let us worship and bow down
Let us kneel before the Lord our God
For he is our God, our shepherd
And we are his people, his sheep

Psalm 95

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Finding Out What It Means - Jun 1974

What does it mean to love one another?
What does it mean to live with each other?
What does it mean to become one?

We're finding out what it means
Sometimes it's not what it seems
Fulfilling yesterdays dreams
We shall marry

What does it mean to become man and wife?
What does it mean to share just one life?
What does it mean to stand naked and unashamed?

Finding Out What It Means

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Psalm 92 - ~1974

It is good to give thanks to the LORD, 
to sing praises to thy name, O Most High; 
to declare thy steadfast love in the morning, 
and thy faithfulness by night.

To the music of the lute and the harp, 
to the melody of the lyre.
For thou O Lord hast made me glad by thy work;
at the work of thy hands I sing for joy

Psalm 92

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Love is a Happy Song - Jul 1974

Love is a happy song
If you hear it sing along
Sing it loud and sing it long
Love is a happy song

Love is patient, love is kind
Love is trusting but it's not blind
Love is warm and love is light
Love rejoices in the right

Love is living, it never ends
laying down it's life for friends
Where love lives there is no fear
It's slow to speak and quick to hear

Love is keeping his commands
Love is lifting holy hands
Love is just and love is fair
Love is constantly in prayer

Love holds to good, love serves the Lord
Love pays for life we can't afford
Love with the Spirit glows
Mercy and honor shows

Love is a Happy Song

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Have You Not Known (Isaiah 40)  -  ~1975


Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,

The Creator of the ends of the earth,
He does not faint or grow weary;
He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might, strength.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
young men shall fall exhausted;

Those who wait upon the Lord 
They shall renew their strength,
and they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
run and not be weary, walk and not faint.

Have You Not Known

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Are you lonely - Apr 1976 

Are you lonely? Do you always find yourself the one and only?
You've been lookin' for a friend, but the friendship seems to end
when you really need someone to help you through

Are you hurting? Don't you hide inside hey don't you pull the curtain.
There is love beyond the skies and it's right there in your eyes
If you just take off the faces and look past the world's disguise

Are you crying? Are you thinkin' that your life is slowly dying?
Do you feel that something's wrong and where you are you don't belong?
Are you looking for someone to really love?

Are you dying? Are you wondering what it's worth to keep on trying?
Are you driven to despair, doesn't anybody care?
Are you crying out to God hey are you there?

Are you believing? Are you filled with joy and all His gifts receiving?
Do you feel that you've been freed from all the hate and hurt and greed?
Do you feel just like a little kid again?

Are you living? Do your eyes reflect the joy that comes from giving?
Is your heart so full of love when it's him your thinking of?
Is it so full of peace it flies away?

Are You Lonely

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Maylene - Nov 1973

Maylene, why can't you be true?
Maylene, honey what you tryin to do?
Maylene, why can't you be true?

Maylene, tell me why you had to leave me?
Maylene, mama broke my poor little heart in three
Maylene, why'd you have to go and leave me?

Maylene, why'd you go and treat me that way?
Maylene, got me drinkin' all night and sleepin' all day.
Maylene, why'd you go and treat me that way?

Maylene, why'd you have to be so mean?
Maylene, lovin' like yours make my teeth turn green
Maylene, why'd you have to be so mean?

Maylene, why'd you go and walk on out the door?
Maylene, honey I gave you everything and more
Maylene, why'd you have to walk on out the door?

Maylene, I'm waitin' for the love I dearly need
Maylene, if I wait on yours I'll surely go to seed
Maylene,  I'm waitin' for the love I dearly need

Maylene, I was better off alone
Maylene, you make marriage an empty ice cream cone
Maylene, I was better off alone

Maylene, I could really live without your love
Maylene, I asked for help and you gave me a shove
Maylene, I believe I could really live without your love

Maylene

Cassette tapes sealed in registered mail packages for 43 years are liberated in 2020. Amazingly, most of the audio survived. Four volumes in all - more to come. Original songs written and recorded direct to tape in the 60s and 70s. Unplugged and unproduced.

Just to Set It Free - Dec 1973

Comin' round to that same old town
Tryin not to let it bring me down
'Cause I know each time I go I gotta leave.

There is a light shines on me
Makes me happy, lets me see
All the things I'm not that I should be.
And she captures my spirit just to set it free

I'm tryin so hard to make my life my life
She belongs to the Lord, she isn't my wife
So long honey and thanks for the love you've given me

Emotional love doesn't make it girl
It comes from the earth, it belongs to the world.
But Jesus told me to love you like He loves me.

cifland

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