This song came from a dream I had about visiting Bethlehem on the night Christ was born, only to find the stable was empty.

Without That Night

A song I learned from Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's.

9. Old Man at the Mill

Life on a small farm in Wisconsin in the fifties

Uncle Jim

Back in the early sixties, I spent one disastrous summer collecting fossils in Kansas and Missouri. Most nights I slept in my car, but one night I treated myself to a cheap room in the Cozart Hotel in Clinton, Missouri. This song is how I felt.

Tonight

Recorded live with the Gospel Messengers in concert at the Hartford Family Folk Festival. 

13 - I Went Down In The Valley To Pray - Jerry Rasmussen

With the Gospel Messengers. An old gospel song, kicked in gear.

17 - I'm Just Waiting On Jesus - Jerry Rasmussen

I song I wrote, many years ago, while my mother was still alive. She's been gone now for almost ten years.

12 - When I Get To Glory - Jerry Rasmussen

Words and music by  Jerry Rasmussen, copyright Crystal  Springs Muisc

Untitled

03 - Back When I Was Young

I learned this song off an Edison recording.

Jerry Rasmussen & Gospel Messengers

Who Built That Ark?

I wrote this song to my friend Luke Faust in 964.

 Thee new songs

winter to spring mix 3

 Whole Lot Happy

searchin mix

a whole lot happy mix 2

One of my songs which will be on my new gospel CD, The Shepherd's Watch.

Lord Send me

Musin and lyrics by Jerry Rasmussen. Cop[yrighted Crystal Springs Music 1992

May I Abide in you 2 mix

Final rough mix of song with Joe Evans singing bass.

He knows how much we can bear with Joe Evans

From my album The Secret Life of Jerry Rasmussen, Folk Legacy CD101. This is a song I wrote and recorded all the vocals.

07 - Ten-Pound Radio

01 - angel band mix 2

This is the final mix of The Shepherd's Watch. Harmonies by Joseph Evans, Mallury Pollard, Frank and Barbara Shaw and Debbie Antari. This is also the title of my  second book.

02 - The Shepherds Watch mix 3

The hoboes adopted Jesus as one of their own. He was always on the road, never had a home and was always there to lend a hand, so they called him Jerusalem Slim. This is one of the songs I wrote. The lyrics are in my first book, The Gate of Beautiful: Stories, Songs and Reflections on Christian Life.

Jerusalem Slim

Stop for a Minute - words and musci by Jerry Rasmussen. I wrote this song back in the sixties, except for the third verse, which I wrote a week ago.

01 - Stop For a minute mix

John The Baptist

I've been performinng, writing songs and recording since the sixties, and I'm still going strong. You'd think I would have gotten it right by now.  :-)

Jerryrasmussen

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