Baez Joan Isaac And Abraham Lyrics

Isaac And Abraham Lyrics

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 land"

 

 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, I wish I was the one

 Who spared, who spared your precious life."

 

 Oh Isaac

 The light of all your days

 Will shine upon this mountain high

 And never never fade away

 And never fade away.