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Mercy

from If It's a Race by Lee Younger

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I wrote this song after going to compassion international's website and reading the profiles of different kids available for sponsorship. You should also go and read some profiles. I dare you not to love those kids...

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MERCY

My name’s Alvaro and I love to run
Under this Bolivian desert sun
I’m nine years old now, but soon I’ll be ten
And I just can’t wait until then

My Mama works as a farmer sometimes
She gives us mostly potatoes and rice
She works so hard just to make a life here
On four hundred dollars a year

I’m so far from alright
I need mercy, sweet mercy
I don’t want to go hungry tonight
God have mercy, please mercy on me

My name’s Savitha and I’m almost eight
I carry the water we use every day
Well I don’t mind it, but my favorite thing
Is to open my heart up and sing

In Southern India the sun beats down
And we need that corn to grow up from the ground
My dad works hard for a dollar a day
I pray things will one day change

I’m so far from alright
I need mercy, sweet mercy
I don’t want to be thirsty tonight
God have mercy, please mercy on me

I live in the hills of East Tennessee
And I have everything that I need
Health care, two cars and a fridge full of food
I keep the air set at seventy-two

Well I don’t know what it must be like
I need mercy, sweet mercy
I don’t want to have a cold heart tonight
God have mercy, please mercy on me

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from If It's a Race, track released October 1, 2009
Produced by Jed Brewer. BGV by Christy Younger. Acoustic guitar, bass guitar and vocals by Lee Younger. Cello by David Wasilko. Everything else was played, programmed, mixed and mastered by Jed Brewer.

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