Jesus Christ-Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers

[ti:Jesus Christ] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Essential Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jesus Christ - Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers [00:05.43]Jesus Christ was a man who traveled through the land [00:09.80] [00:10.44]Hard working man and brave [00:13.88] [00:14.43]He said to the rich Give your goods to the poor [00:18.28]So they laid Jesus Christ in his grave [00:22.66] [00:24.72]Yes Jesus was a man a carpenter by hand [00:29.11]His followers true and brave [00:32.73] [00:33.45]One dirty little coward called Judas Iscariot [00:36.81] [00:37.38]Has laid poor Jesus selives grave [00:42.22] [00:43.23]He went to the preacher he went to the sheriff [00:47.07] [00:47.61]Told them all the same [00:51.50]Sell all of your jewelry and give it to the Poor [00:55.25]So they laid Jesus Christ in his grave [00:59.08] [01:05.24]When Jesus came to town the working folks around [01:09.45]Believed what he did say [01:12.98] [01:13.56]The bankers and the preachers they nailed him on a cross [01:17.08]And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave [01:21.08] [01:22.14]Poor working people they follered him around [01:26.49]Sung and shouted gay [01:29.89]But Cops and the soldiers they nailed him in the air [01:33.78]And they nailed Jesus Christ in his grave [01:37.97] [01:42.69]Well the people held their breath when they heard about his death [01:46.18] [01:46.97]And everybody wondered why [01:50.62]It was the landlord and the soldiers that he hired [01:54.51]That nailed Jesus Christ in the sky [01:58.07] [02:00.16]This song was written in New York City [02:04.38]Of rich men preachers and slaves [02:07.65] [02:08.27]The Jesus was to preach like he preached in Galillee [02:11.84]They would lay Jesus Christ in his grave [02:15.82] [02:19.59]Yes Jesus was a man a carpenter by hand [02:23.67]His followers true and brave [02:27.12] [02:27.71]One dirty little coward called Judas Iscariot [02:31.31]Has laid poor Jesus selives grave