isaac & abraham

Singer:joan baez

hard times

hard times in canaan land

trouble in the mind of a man

a voice came whispering softly to him

go offer

offer up the lamb

abraham took his only son

high up on a hill

his test of faith had finally come

as the wind

the wind begin to chill

cold steel

cold steel in the father's hand

tears falling from the sky

the angels

the angels did not understand

why the righteous

the righteous boy should die

then abraham most mysteriously

laid down that deadly knife

said my darlin' son