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Barabbas
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David Olney
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Some work and slave for all of their days
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And they'll do anything whatever it pays
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Some of us search and we find other ways
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Me, I turned to thieving
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A little bit here and a little bit there
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Always some danger but i didn't care
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As long as I felt I was getting my share
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That's all I ever believed in
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From the day I was born I understood
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One way or another I'd wind up no good
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One night I got caught, always knew that I would
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The charges were robbery and murder
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I broke into a house for money and jewels
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Some old man tried to stop me, poor misguided fool
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I killed him and left him in his own bloody pool
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I ran but was caught by the soldiers
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They bound me and beat me and put me on trial
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It was all cut and dried, it took a short while
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"Have you anything to say?" I only smiled
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And said, "Judge, let's get this over."
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I was led from the courtroom and back to my cell
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For a man 'bout to die I was taking it well
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With no hope of heaven and no fear of hell
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Only silence and darkness forever
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I awoke from a dream in the middle of the night
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The door burst open and in streamed the light
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A man was thrown in more dead than alive
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On his face I could see the blood glisten
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I could tell at a glance he'd been beat black and blue
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He lay their unconscious but then he came to
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I said, "Tell me, friend, what on earth did you do."
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He said, "I told them but they wouldn't listen."
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Told them what?" I asked but he didn't speak again
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He just lay there quiet in his blood and his pain
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The morning broke, it was starting to rain
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The guards come in and they got us
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Out to the courtyard in the cool morning air
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A crowd was waiting. Why were they there?
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Two small-time losers, what did they care?
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I'd have thought they'd already forgot us
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The next thing I heard was the governor's own voice
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He raised up his hands and the mob ceased its noise
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"According to custom I'm giving you the choice
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Which of these men should I pardon?"
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The mob went crazy and cried out my name
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Shouting, "Give us Barabas!" again and again
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The governor sighed and said, "My hands are clean."
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The mob shouted, "Give us Barabas!"
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But what kind of freedom is this that is mine?
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To spend all my days in search of a sign
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To have my life saved and to never know why
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To owe such a debt to a stranger
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I will go with the wind to a far distant land
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I will not cease my wandering til I understand
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I will tell everyone, every woman and man
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Of the strange things I have beheld here
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Of the strange things I have beheld here
Josiah Queen - I Am Barabbas (Lyrics)
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