70 souls

[Verse 1] They packed up the tents And the taste of their land Every story Every secret Held in rough Weathered hands One father in front Twelve names in a row Every child Every cousin Where he walked They would go [Chorus] Seventy souls on a borrowed road Carrying promise like a hidden gold Every name like a lantern’s glow Reuben Simeon Levi Judah All of them counted All of them known Seventy souls And not one alone [Verse 2] Joseph was waiting Years ahead in that place With old pain in his memory New lines in his face But he set one more table Spread wider than before Till brothers and their children Found rest at his door [Chorus] Seventy souls on a borrowed road Carrying promise like a hidden gold Every name like a lantern’s glow Issachar Zebulun Benjamin All of them counted All of them known Seventy souls And not one alone [Bridge] Then the candles burned low And the old ones fell asleep (oh) One by one That generation Laid their years in the deep But the breath that had blessed them Moved on through the line What was buried in Egypt Would rise in its time [Chorus] Seventy souls on a borrowed road Carrying promise like a hidden gold Every name like a lantern’s glow Dan Naphtali Gad And Asher All of them counted All of them known Seventy souls And not one alone