Sweet Jesus - Gary Chapman

There is a river runnin' through this town

It carries the water

There isn’t any way to slow it down

Or make it stop

I was a baby when the big bridge fell

So I don’t remember

But I have listened to the stories well

And so I know they were falling to the surface

They were calling to their God

And their cry was

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You catch us, save us

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You hear us crying

Fishing for luck beneath the bridge that day

A man in his eighties

He saw it happen and began to pray

As he dove in

He found a mother and her baby boy

They both wouldn’t make it

The mama handed him her only joy

He took the child. then he was swimming

Like he was twenty

He made shoreline, then he died

And his thoughts were

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You catch us, save us

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You hear us crying

He was crying

I miss my mother and the brave old man

Though I never knew them

They are the soul inside the man I am

I bare their dreams

And I am walking in their footsteps

I am talking to their God

And my cry is

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You catch us, save us

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You hear us

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You catch us, save us

Sweet Jesus, please, won’t You hear us crying

We’re all crying

There is a river runnin' through this town

It carries the water

There isn’t any way to slow it down

Or make it stop