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Come and Die

from Land of Promise by Jacob Mau

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I heard that your great uncle was an Evangelical United Brethren man. Came west from Pennsylvania and he built himself a church a mile south from where the house now stands. Down the middle of that church they say there ran a little wall that today we all would think is odd. They put the women on the one side and the men over on the other, and they knew that it was right with God.

Oh right with God, Oh right with God.

The Methodists and the Catholics and the Presbyterians. A dozen different kinds of Lutherans speaking German and Norwegian. They came building up their steeples all across the virgin prairie land. They were sinners and they were saints, and in their shadows we now stand.

Oh yes we do, Oh yes we do.

But all those church tops pointing to the bright blue sky of a growing nation and its modern mind. Did they sound the call to come and die? Did they sound it loud? Did they sound it clear as they sheltered those who came for years each Sunday morning and then they died? And now we’re asking what they left behind.

Oh what did they leave behind? Oh what will we leave behind?

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from Land of Promise, released July 4, 2013

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Jacob Mau Chicago, Illinois

Jacob Mau spins compelling stories of misfit people and misplaced landscapes oft overlooked by others, and ignored by history. As this year's winner of Chicago's longest-running open mic competition, hosted annually by Uncommon Ground, he is clearly a standout among the city's best singer-songwriters. Good things await this young musician."

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