John Gay’s musical journey is Live From The Madcity on Max Ink Radio

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Welcome back to magsync radio on this fine Saturday night high above state street. My name is

rocker right here with Jane in the studio and tonight since 2017 John Gay has performed more than

1200 shows. That was the year John finished a nine year incarceration for growing marijuana

and John found solace in music and performing in the prison and since his release performing

and writing music is his life's passion. John's journey is marked by resilience hard work and

creativity and tonight John Gay is live from the mad cine presented by the Aaron Weber group.

John welcome to magsync radio. Thank you for having me. Thank you. How's the drive in tonight?

You came from Jefferson. Well, it's good. Yes, from Jefferson. Sun was in my eyes a little bit,

but we got through it. Tell us your backstory. How did you get started in music, John?

Well, I listened to music. My parents weren't musicians or anything like that. Like a lot of musician

stories go. But I listened to music and played like trumpet in grade school and high school and

stuff. But then after high school, I finally actually after college saw enough pink Floyd and

grateful dead shows. I got to play guitar, man. Yes. What role did your parents play in your

musical upbringing? Well, they kind of mixed. My mom was great and supportive. She was kind of a

stage mom to my sister who was in theater and dance and stuff like that. And you know, my dad was

the first sergeant in the Marines. He owned a sighting company and he kind of was practical man.

You know, he thought that it was kind of a pipe dream. But he didn't try to get me not to be a

musician or anything like that. And I wasn't super serious at that stage anyway. I just picked up

the guitar in my 20s, really. And so I mean, you know, they were great parents, but they weren't

like musicians. They didn't show me the ropes or anything like that. Tell us about your early

inspirations. You have a couple of guys you'd like. Yeah. Early on, it was, I mean, I listened to a

lot of that classic rock, you know, Kansas and Pink Floyd. Yeah, right. That the moments in,

you know, sitting in a parked car in a cornfield, you know, listening to Pink Floyd start

side of the moon is like, oh man, this is killer, you know. And so just listening to music made me

always in the back of my mind want to do it. And I'd be at concerts and think, man, could I, I feel

like I could do that. Well, let's get to some live music from the man city with John Gay presented

by the Aaron Weber group. The first song that you have for us tonight is the title track for your

debut album. It's called Why You Can? Is this a song about a deadline? No, no debt. Well, yeah, kind

of like a life deadline deadline. Yeah, we get about 50% of the time here. Right. Right. We make the

deadlines. I saw some running just before the breaks here or after the breaks, but yeah, it's just a

life deadline. You know, I mean, you get to a certain point in your life where you look at the world

and sort of say, I don't know if I really have time for this anymore, you know, and you just kind of,

or I just sort of started to not be super interested in all of the rat race. And sort of at some

point in my life, I kind of just dropped out of it. And, you know, a lot of that had to do with

music and, you know, certain experiences. But, you know, it just basically comes down to, you just

got to, at some point, just do it, you know, while you can still, while you're still alive while

you're still here, you know, and I went at certain point in my life, I started reading the Bible.

And I'm like, obviously, that's the main thought while you can get saved, you need to do that,

you know, figure out if God is for real and all that stuff, you know, and so that's basically

the inspiration from that came for while you can. Well, let's check it out right now. This is

while you can, John Gay, live from the Mad City on Maxine Credio.

Don't let your head hang low, if I'm nothing mild, let your words be few and don't forget to smile.

I got a secret place under the low roads when we're on up to creep,

head out in the spring with my dogs won't be back for a week, I take a man, don't be

unaware of that master plan, they only want to push apples on your hand,

but all through the thicket and look at bad thorn, eat crown, come another ground.

If you could see now that I've only birdies, but I've never said,

keep going from porch light, burning bright,

and don't let your head hang low, if I'm nothing mild, let your words be few and don't forget to smile.

Say hello to a lousy head, say goodbye to a lousy head,

but I've never said, keep going from porch light, burning bright,

and don't let your head hang low, if I'm nothing mild, let your words be few and don't forget to smile.

I got a secret place under the low roads when we're on up to creep,

head out in the spring with my dogs won't be back for a week,

I take a man, don't forget to smile,

if I'm nothing mild, let your words be few and don't forget to smile.

Yeah, thank you, thank you.

While you can, that is John Gay right here, live from the mad city. So John, you're growing weed,

playing guitar, what happens next? Oh, yeah, it was growing weed. Man,

well, I got busted, there was some drama, there was some drama,

yeah, and somebody called the cabs kind of on a spiden,

they kicked in the door and I'm now in prison, jail at first. Wow, that is just so harsh,

nine years, it seems like a heavy sentence, but not to your judge, talk about marijuana laws

from your perspective. Well, somebody said what's his name, any drug can be used effectively,

no matter how demonized it is, and any drug can be abused no matter how accepted it is.

That's true, you know, and I mean, we're all sinners on this planet, so you can't really

legislate all sin, we all be in prison. And so it gets to a point where it's just kind of

counterproductive to just have all these laws on the books. And if you look at the history,

I think there's a lot of sketchy motivation behind the laws, pressing groups of people that,

you know, maybe the powers that beat and like, and just a power play, a money play, you know,

by oil companies and pharmacy, pharmaceutical companies, you know, just, I don't know in Wisconsin,

sometimes I wonder if it's not the bar lobby, but the tavern going on there. Yeah, I mean,

that's always what I thought too. It's possible. You know, I'm not advocating that people should

be stoned and playing video games all day, you know, but, you know, I'm not sure that's.

Yeah, there's, there's just better things to do. Yeah, yeah, you know, screen. I get it. Well,

you know, and now, since since your time, things have even changed a little bit, seems like they're

relaxing a little bit. Right, right. Yeah, I got out and there's billboards and you can kind of get,

you know, yeah, weed now. It's looked like it's kind of a weird place as far as it's

the Galadine, Wisconsin. I guess it's not technically legal, right? But it's readily available.

More tolerated, I think. Yeah. Nowadays, you know, you decide to use your time to get better at

playing guitar and performing. Talk about writing songs and performing in the prison.

Yeah. So it took a couple of years, but I, I've, I finally got a guitar and talked to the

warden into allowing us on the unit that I was on. I was like a barracks unit. How do you,

how do you get a guitar? Do they, do they supply that? Or do you, you know, have to have somebody

bring it in there? You can't bring it in because there could be drugs or something. Yeah,

in the sound hole or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Any which way they can. You have to, but they have,

they had some available on what they call canteen. You can order the prison issue guitar.

Oh, I see. For the time it was like $100, $125. I got a prison guitar and it worked. I'm fine,

you know, and I played it. And like I said, talked to the warden into letting us have this little

practice room. It was basically a storage closet, a little six by nine storage closet off the

bedroom. And I just spent a lot of time in there once, once that was allowed. Little natural reverb.

Well, yeah. And then, then I'd play on the back patio or in the, or in the yard, you know,

and guys liked it. And it was, it was a pretty good time. I was going to say, how was, how was

the crowd? That's a captured crowd where they, yeah, the captivated audience. They were really

supportive. Yeah. Ironically, maybe it's not ironic, but I mean, I got more encouragement when I was

playing in prison than I did out in the world, really. Wow. You know, you know, guys are like,

man, you should do that. You know, when you get out. What do you attribute that to?

I don't know. I don't know, really. Why did I get more? I think people in the world are more caught

up in the world. Yeah. And there's an expectation that you have to just kind of subscribe to everybody's

program. And you know, if you're not dead set on what you want to do or don't know, then you're

just going to kind of be doing what everyone else wants you to do. And in prison, there's really

maybe not that dynamic. That's interesting. Let's get back to live music from the Man City with John

Gabe presented by the Aaron Weber group. The next song you have for us tonight is called Momento.

Is this a song about a tragic moment? Very much so. I was growing marijuana down in Kentucky,

and the guy was growing with, we came up to the spot where we're going to put in a little crop.

And he kicked over to this rotted log and picked up a piece of leather, you know, about three

inches long. And he said, this is a momento. And momento is how you pronounce momento.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, yeah, people gave me static about dispelling of the word. It's like,

no, it's molemento and not memento. I know it's proper, but anyway, from that old Smith over on

Horse Creek. And, you know, my heart just sank, you know, and, you know, this guy got killed trying

to steal some weed of a crop, a bigger crop than what we were doing in the 2000s. This was from

Kentucky the 80s. There was a bigger crop in the 80s. The guy was guarding it, you know,

and guy somebody tried to steal it. And the, as was the protocol back in the day, the grower

shot the guy from a long distance with bird shot, not to kill him just to run him off.

Right. And, but the guy turned around and started shooting back. And now there's a gunfight going

on. And the grower had to switch to buckshot or whatever. And the thief ended up getting killed.

And, you know, it just bugged me then and it still bugs me. And I was like looking at writing

music for this album, you know, and I had that Harold Smith from Lower Horse Creek just kept going

through my mind. I'm like, I can't write the songs. It's too real, you know. But I thought

that's probably the reason I should write it, you know. And it just speaks to how, not to harp

on the laws. I'm not trying to be on a soapbox here. But I mean, it takes a situation that maybe

there are some people that abuse marijuana that just don't do anything but smoke pot or whatever.

I don't really know. No one's probably died from it. They take the laws take what would be a

relatively neutral situation and make it dangerous. You know, so the value was heightened. And so

people were growing it in the middle of nowhere where you could kind of get away with stealing it.

And it just makes a very dangerous situation out of what otherwise wouldn't be. And so out of that

came Momento. Wow. Well, let's check it out. This is Momento. John Kay live from the Mad City on Max

Inc. Radio.

I think no wonder the sun, Momento, Momento trees,

chasing after her in the wind, Momento, Momento trees.

She said I ain't singing you lately. I said I know I've been wrong on the trees.

Stuck in quick sand below the waterfall with a Momento right in the log and maple leaves.

Deep in the hole, I'm playing poker. The farmer started digging out.

But the growing season almost over from his post above the crop, he was looking out.

Harold Smith from the workforce creek of Momento, a piece of leather from his book.

All that remains of another pot thief. He'll side farmer had shoes.

I think no wonder the sun, Momento on the tree, chasing after her in the wind, Momento on the trees.

So down to the crop at daylight. From 40 yards he got burned a hope.

It was a bird child. But like a fool he returned fire.

Got finished off with double eye.

Harold Smith from the workforce creek of Momento, a piece of leather from his book.

All that remains of another pot thief.

A hillside farmer had shoes. Nothing new under the sun.

Momento on the trees, chasing after her in the wind, Momento on the trees.

Yeah, that is, excuse me, Momento. John came right here live from the man city.

John, in prison you found solace in music, but also in reading the Bible.

What did you take away with that?

Well, yeah, I mean, I got in there and basically said, okay, God, you have my undivided attention.

And I set out to determine whether it was real or not is the Bible really written by God.

And so I just started reading it over and over, you know,

started to figure out who God is and if he's real.

And after a much study and looking into the transcript evidence and everything,

I found some stuff that's like kind of undeniable, you know, like,

the prophecy mainly where in like Daniel 9, the Christ riding in on a donkey was predicted

to the exact day, hundreds of years in advance. And in Ezekiel 4, the reestablishing of Israel as a

nation is predicted in May 14, 1948 to the exact day. And I'm like, do nobody told me this stuff

was in the Bible. And I'm like, and I didn't really want it to be real, you know, because I didn't want

to have to answer to anybody, you know, I'm like, I do what I want. I do what I want, you know,

and but, you know, it was kind of, I couldn't, I went in as a skeptic and tried to disprove it.

And, you know, ended up believing. And so that really changed just everything, you know.

And so, you know, I did my best to kind of live it out, but, you know, I'm total mess up still, you know,

but the takeaway is that what's in the Bible is actually true and that biblical world view puts

everything into context, you know, especially with what's happening now. Israel is still in the

center of everything. And, you know, this little country about the size of whatever New Jersey or

something, you know. And, you know, it's just really, it's really comforting to know that while

everything just seems to be falling apart, it's like, you know, not the end of the universe.

You have hope. Yeah. Well, John, you call your music seeker dropout music. What is a seeker dropout?

Excuse me. Had to wet the whistle. Um, just that, really. I mean, I came from the, you know,

grateful dead, um, Pink Floyd, um, vent, you know, where, you know, I did enough acid to be like,

okay, forget the world, you know, I'm going to play guitar. Nice. And, or, and, you know, if not that,

then I'm going to grow weed, um, and just kind of drop out of society. And so I very much have dropped

out in like a real way, but, um, always really wanted to know what is it really all about, you know,

and so I just find myself contemplating life a lot, you know, and looking into it.

And I think there may be other people who are kind of alienated by, you know, what's turning out

to be pretty much satanic world system, you know, that just is forcing us to leave nature and eat

weird stuff that's not really food. And, uh, you know, I just like, I kind of really don't want

anything to do with that. You know, I know we're in the world. It's like, it's not like you can really

just escape it all. But, um, that's what I'm getting at by seeker dropout, you know, and just like

seeking the truth and just not really interested in an impressive world system.

Well, let's get back to live music from the man city with John gave presented by the Aaron

Weber group. The next song that you have for us tonight, it's called Daisy's. Is this about clipping

daisies? Uh, no, not really. No, this is, this is a heart rock song, a hard rock song. When I was in,

in prison at Fox Lake, there was this guy, um, this black guy who was really into rock and roll.

Yeah. And, you know, he told a story about when he was nine years old,

wandering off in Milwaukee from his mom and to the sound of somebody playing working man by

rush on there like Marshall and, uh, and, you know, he wanders up to the sound of somebody go,

boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You know, and I want to do that, you know,

when he goes up and puts this guitar on from from some stranger and just like hits the strum,

you know, and is blown away by this Marshall sack that was bigger than he was. Yeah. And so,

anyway, he, he was locked up with me and he invited me to be in this rock band.

And he had this, um, like guitar part that he had been trying for,

and like 20 years, he was in there a long time. He, he's out on parole now in Madison.

His name is Dennis Peterson. Hey, Dennis, if you're listening, um, I wish you were here to play

this guitar part right now. We should have talked about this. But he had this guitar part, you know,

and he could never get anyone to write to it. And I'm like, well, I'll give it a shot, you know,

sure, you know, and, um, I was, you know, reading in that same vent, you know, it's just like, um,

I don't know why I came up with a thought of a daisies and the context of a hard rock song. But,

you know, it was just like weird daisies on the grave, you know, we're just going to like

be here and go on the next, you know. Yeah. And so out of that came daisies. Nice.

See if I can play it, Dennis. Oh, well, let's check it out. This is daisies. You're listening to John

Gay right here live from the Man City on Maxing Radio.

Yeah.

Running down the shattered glass, the progress that could never let.

Vistory is so dark and messed, I don't know how it went so fast. The atmosphere is torn,

under a stone crown we must cover, after about the smoldering mess, feel the heat of its

correct, it's correct, it's correct, we are daisies on the grave, living on the cave,

we are daisies on the grave, when all else goes away, another verse, another verse,

falling through the cracking earth, decent, that started at birth and never knowing what

it's worth, civil thinks on earth, forgets that he owned it first, doubt the trees of

the sky was falling as the ne'er one is wrong, but we are daisies on the grave, living on the

cave, we are daisies on the third year, when all else goes away,

time is smothered, mother daughter, but I'm the one through violence taught her,

problemizes to the slaughter, that's the gullens in the water, those who found their own

nest, who found in their own ways, well it seems like all is gone, see that we've

been down so long, sweeping off the shattered glass, the progress could have last,

electro-magnetic bliss left the daisies in the grass, we are daisies on the grave, living on the

cave, we are daisies on the third year, when all else goes away, we are daisies on

the third year, living on the cave, we are daisies on the third year,

time is smothered, mother daughter, but I'm the one through violence taught her,

problemizes to the slaughter, mother daughter, but I'm the one through violence taught her,

live from the mad city on maxing radio, we'll be right back after this break,

you found Wisconsin's local music authority, this is maxing radio, we are local music,

welcome back to live from the mad city on maxing radio, my name is rocker here with Jane and we have

John Kaye in the studio, playing a lot of new songs from his albums here, John writing music,

what comes first, lyric concept or riff? Well both, I mean it depends on what's happening,

but most of the time lyric probably, or feeling or concept, like momentum, you know the lyric

and that first line of the song just kind of came out, but I had, you know it's also I'm just

playing something that kind of seems cool to me and then I'll just start sort of doing nonsense

words over it and stuff will come out, so I mean it's kind of a wishy-washy answer to say both,

but it's happened both ways, you know in these songs I wrote with Dennis, you know I would have

some lyric kind ideas and he would have riffs and I would just kind of match them up as

same appropriate. Have you worked any other collaborations or are you ever thinking of maybe

even a full band? Yeah, yeah I was, I've been in touch with those guys from the killer clowns,

I don't know if you've heard of them. Yeah, Steve their bassist, I just think it's amazing and also

I mean they're just amazing and you know I was toying with the idea and I was looking at trying

to talk seriously with them, but I mean I don't know how much they know this, I mean I talked to him

last fall, yeah, and he was interested, but I mean it's just, will be fun to see, yeah, it'd be fun

to see your music with a with a whole band, yeah, it needs to happen for sure. Your debut album,

Why You Can was released last December, talk about the new record quick and where we can find it

online. Yeah, it's on all the streaming platforms, the platforms are figuring out who I am,

so you'd need to probably type in while you can John Gay put my name and the title in there in this

and then the whole album will come up and John Gay Music.com is my website. And where did you

record this with Matt LaPante also? No, no, not with Matt LaPante. I was, I went down to Nashville.

Oh, nice. Recorded it with Sean Giovanni. Okay. Yeah. Great. Well, let's get back to live music

from the man city with John Gay presented by the Aaron Weber group. The next song you have for us

tonight, it's called Dead End Saloon. And is this a song about hidden vulnerability?

Well, yeah, I mean, it would, but yeah, not really. I mean, oh, what? Hidden vulnerability. Yeah,

you're in your, in your hopes and dreams, maybe, you know, like I was growing a weed and I'm like,

I just had an intuition that it was going to go bad. And this, this woman who I had just started

dating, we went to the Dead End Saloon, literally. And I'm like, this might be it, you know,

in the very next, that was a Saturday and Monday, I was getting the door kicked in. Wow. Well,

let's check it out. Dead End Saloon. You're listening to John Gay, live from the man city,

I'm Maxing Gradio.

Ever get out of this maze, drive me to another dead end Saloon.

Smite the out of the dead in the room, make love to me, despite the dormant hurry,

the cops are coming soon.

Tonight, feel tertiary, sparkles on the life you dream.

The flowers blown and quickly died, jealousy was out to tan your hide.

And I'd like to throw a band that you cried, oh we are, it's a bandy night.

Drive me to another dead end Saloon. Smite the out of the dead in the room,

make love to me, despite the dormant hurry, the cops are coming soon.

Loading high above the city, flip off, finger, and ground, glory.

To look to me through that long ground here, we know it's wrong but we won't go there.

Drive me to another dead end Saloon. Smite the out of the dead in the room,

make love to me, despite the dormant hurry, the cops are coming soon.

Yeah, dead end Saloon, that is John Gay, live from the man city right here on Maxing

Radio. John, prison seems like a pretty scary place for most people. Do you have any, you know,

crazy things? What would you tell people about that experience?

Man, the first couple of years I was in there, I seemed to always be getting into it with the

very biggest guy on the unit without fail. It took me a mile to figure out how to just chill.

But when I got to Fox Lake, I was in a barracks right at the edge of the day room and there was

a sign out sheet where everybody had to log when they went to a different part of the prison,

like to wreck or whatever, and chapel. And this guy came in, he was reading all the names of who

it signed out and when. And he got to my name, he was like, Gay, who's gay? Some trying to be

wise and kicking, you know, who's clowning around here. And I thought, because I mean, I was on

the edge of the day room and I just figured he was casing out who was in their cell so we could

like steal their stuff, you know? And I had worked really hard to get a guitar. It was just like,

I was paranoid. Right. And I'm like, that's me. I'm sitting right there in my bunk while he's

right next to me. And I said, that's me. And he's like, you know what? He just got in his chest and

I thought, I'm like, I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm getting beaten up by this big huge dude, you know?

A muscular guy. And somehow we didn't end up getting into fisticuffs, but

and we made up later. He, and he was a friend of Ashley Dennis's. Oh wow.

Later. So it all ended fine. But, you know, you have to, I learned basically the takeaway was a

verse in the Bible is that if a man's ways are pleasing to God, then even his enemies would be a

piece with him. Oh, interesting. It said, what carried me through prison? Well, let's get back to

live music from the man city with John Gay, presented by the Aaron Weber group. The next song you

have for us tonight, it's called digging. And is this the kind of digging that happens late at night

in a dark place? Rocker, I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to here. Jay, I don't know if

you can help, but it seems like I have no problem. I have to guess at what these are. Yeah, being morbid.

Yeah, actually, I was part of a film in prison about artisan absentia. It was called by

Refuge Films. Uh-huh. And actually, it displayed at the Madison Public Library a while back,

well, in 2016. Okay. And I played digging for that film. And the prison wouldn't allow it

because they assumed that it was involving some kind of murder and a burying of a corpse,

but that is not what the song is about. I don't know if that's what you were asking, but.

All right. Well, let's check it out. It wouldn't be the first to think that. No, I was just,

I always felt like I was drinking my own grave, you know, still growing and, you know, trying to,

you know, and that's the far off. Yeah. Well, let's hear it. This is digging. You're listening to

John Gaye, live from the Man City on Maxing Radio.

I'm gonna fly you wet from here someday.

Seems like half of the people are psychotic.

Anyway.

To do the things that you do.

Banger stays on the trigger.

Oh, Lord, at a twirl age. But you got to turn on the page.

Turn on the page.

Halfway over.

Three feet into the ground. Still digging. I hate staying sober.

Three feet into the ground. Still digging. I can't hold her.

Three feet into the ground. Still digging.

Oh, somebody grabbed my shoulder.

I'm three feet into the ground. Still digging.

No reason for 510 overfaith.

Oh, respect or love around here, day.

Let it keep spying in leaders lying. Youth is gone.

Gluttonills sound as selfish. Hound racing towards our new home.

But you got to turn on the page.

Turn on the page.

Halfway over.

Three feet into the ground. Still digging. I hate staying sober.

Three feet into the ground. Still digging. I can't hold her.

Three feet into the ground. Still digging.

Oh, somebody grabbed my shoulder.

I'm three feet into the ground. Still digging.

Music

We welcome to meet again in our mind.

Stay with me tonight in dreams of life,

Meet the blind and have a sigh, hold on.

To Jesus Christ, hold on, hold on.

Music

Halfway over, three feet into the ground, still digging.

I hate saying sober, three feet into the ground, still digging.

I can't hold her, three feet into the ground, still digging.

Somebody save me before I am six feet under the ground on digging.

Six feet under the ground on digging, six feet under the ground on digging.

Six feet under the ground on digging.

Six feet under the ground on digging.

Wow, digging.

That is John K. Life from the Mad City right here on Maxine Credio.

John, you have lots of shows coming up around the state.

And you have some lots of shows coming around the state.

And you're everywhere right here in Madison Tuesday, March 31st,

69pm at the up north bar.

And then Thursday, the second of April, you are at Tanner's Grill in bar.

That's in West Appleton.

Then Sunday, the 5th of April, Timber Hill Winery in Milton,

the 10th of April, over at the Dodger Bowl lanes in Dodgerville, Wisconsin.

I don't even know where Dodgerville is.

And then...

West them on homework.

And then the 12th, you're up at Kernicke's in Cross Plains.

How do you like that place, Kernicke's?

It's nice.

And the owners are so friendly.

Yeah, it's a nice room.

How can we keep up with your shows and music online?

Well, JohnGameMusic.com has all my shows under look under shows in the menu

and all the rest of my stuff's in there.

Well, John, thank you so much for taking the time to come out and play with us tonight.

We really appreciate it.

We have time for one more song tonight.

It's called Joy of the Lord.

We only have a couple more minutes.

I'm not even going to joke with this song.

Just tell us about it and play.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, Jesus, for the joy set before him, said it's face to go to Jerusalem to die,

so that we would have a chance to be with him in eternity.

And so I figured if God of the universe, God has joy.

And what kind of joy would that be?

And that's the kind of joy I would like to have.

That came this song.

When you come for us, Lord,

You'll find blood upon our door.

Can't wait for that day.

When we see you face to face,

Oh, you're oiling all these jars.

Shine your light, nearing fire.

This world is on fire.

But we are all for higher.

You take us off in the clouds and let your words flow out over our mouths

Let us walk in the light of day.

All we want is to hear you say,

Well, now I'm going to fight for a surround.

You can fathom in a few things.

I will make a ruler over many things.

Enter into the joy of the Lord.

The joy of the Lord.

Oh, the fig tree does not bloom.

No fruit be on the line.

Though the labor of the olive fails.

And the fields yield no food.

Though the flag be caught off from the foe.

And there be no hurting in the storm.

Yet I will rejoice in you, Lord.

I will join you in my salvation.

There you take us off in the clouds and let your words flow out over our mouths.

Let us walk in the light of day.

All we want is to hear you say,

Well, now I'm going to fight for a surround.

You can fathom in a few things.

I will make a ruler over many things.

Enter into the joy of the Lord.

The joy of the Lord.

The joy of the Lord.

I will watch and hope for you, Lord.

Wait for you in my salvation.

My God, you hear me.

There you take us off in the clouds and let your words flow out over our mouths.

Let us walk in the light of day.

All we want is to hear you say,

Well, now I'm going to fight for a surround.

You can fathom in a few things.

I will make a ruler over many things.

Enter into the joy of the Lord.

The joy of the Lord.

The joy of the Lord.

The joy of the Lord.

Yeah, as if I'm cute.

Well, check it out.

You can see John Gay coming up on the 31st of March at North Park.

Up North Park here in Madison, I'm Rocker.

We change.