La música cristiana es de origen judío: la liturgia musical de la sinagoga, en particular el canto psalmódico de los judíos como unidad poética musical, fue un legado preciado transmitido del Israel antiguo al cristianismo primitivo, como forma de manifestar tanto a nivel personal como comunitario las creencias religiosas y la fe en Dios.
Down on Church Street there´s an old man
with a sweet strum and a brown bag
he´s still trying to write that song.
And the ponytail girls dream
in a warm wind from the gulf stream
and the Cumberland just rolls along.
Oh Tennessee I miss your sweet life
I´ve been away so long.
Oh Tennessee leave on the moonlight
I´m taking the back road home.
I saw this cat chill out in Knoxville
cooking catfish on a black grill -
he was humming some Beale Street blues.
Every big game there´s a tailgate
and the churches line the Interstate
and on Sunday they got real good news.
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By a Smoky Mountain cool spring
there´s a tree rope where the kids swing -
to the sound of a distant train.
Old Wanda swears it ain´t the wine
but she saw the ghost of Patsy Cline -
laughing in the Broadway rain.
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