Caedmon's Call

All I Need (i Did Not Catch Her Name)

I did not catch her name

I did not catch her tears

But they hit me like a train

When her story hit my ears

Mother of eight sons

Father off to war

Got no home address

Just bricks on a dirt floor

And she said, "Jesus is all I need"

Tiny plot of land

Corn stored up in piles

The years it doesn't rain

They just stay hungry for a while

With no fatted calf to kill

She made a feast of cuy and corn and said

Who else knew my name before

The day that I was born

Jesus is all I need

And she bragged about her boys

And how they're growing into men

And how the learned to praise the Lord

Old style Ecuadorian

But to buy the new guitar

We had to sell the swine

See my boys go to school on a foreign angel's dime

This world calls me poor

I bore my babies on this floor

But He always provides

Sure as the sun will rise

So I sing Him songs of praise

'Cause I know He keeps me in His gaze

Rain fell from the sky

We raced back to the van

Tears in the eyes

Of this poor forgetful man

Mother of eight sons

She knows the peace of God

Lord, help me learn to lean on

Thy staff and Thy rod

Jesus is all I need