Pilgrim - After The Fire

Narrator

One day as I lay down to rest

In a den for my safe keeping

I closed my eyelids for the best

And I quickly fell to sleeping

Was then I had the strangest dream

Which I shall now forthtell

All of a man who lived in fear

For the thought of going to hell!

I saw him reading from a book

And his legs they were a-shaking

The more he read the more he shook

Till I knew his heart was breaking

But I could not ask why he wept so As I said, I was only dreaming

But I’m sure that for some means of escape

Was the way his mind was scheming

He looked around this way and that

As if to make a run

But the burden that was on his back

It surely weighed him down

And as he wept he cried out

«What must I do to be saved,

And to stop this burden from dragging me down

Even further than the grave?»

Evangelist

Head over there, you’ll find a gate

Keep the light in your eye

That is the way of your escape

That is the way you must…

Head over there, you’ll find a gate

Keep the light in your eye

That is the way of your escape

That is the way you must … fly

Pilgrim

So I journeyed as a pilgrim

Never to return

Many dangers lay before me Lessons I must learn

Up the highway of salvation

My burden there I lost

Fell away and rolled right from me When I saw the cross

Then on an on I bravely went

Through the «Valley of Humiliation»

Was there I fought for my life

With the one that I used to serve

Then the «Valley of the Shadow

of Death"it hung over me I never thought that I’d see the light of day again

Then I found a friend, oh what a friend

We travelled together

Till at «Vanity Fair"they