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The First Ballad
(Bryan Field McFarland)
2005-03-12
Bryan Field McFarland inspired by James Weldon Johnson's "God's Trombones"
FROM A 1980 ANALOG RECORDING. PLEASE FORGIVE POOR SOUND QUALITY!!!
Someone at a youth event I attended in 1972 or 1973 did a dramatic reading of James Weldon Johnson's "God's Trombones". The poetic words of the sunshine wrapping around the shoulders of God gave me chills.
While it's not really the very first song I ever wrote, this is the oldest song of mine. Written and sung for Vacation Bible School at my home church of Roswell Presbyterian in the summer of 1973, this song still gets lots of requests. Thanks!!