Song Description

This is a folk/country song with a gospel message.

Lyrics

Ashley Street

There's a place down on Ashley Street
Where the city trains and the buses meet.
Anyone can walk right in.
Lonely people can find a friend,
And beggers sit with businessmen.
When we lay our burdens down,
we're all on level ground.

Chorus:
We come with our broken hearts,
Battered dreams and hopes,
Bound by the bonds we share
of children gone and growing up,
Love lost, tragedies, memories of Christmas eve---
We laugh, we cry, sometimes we grieve.

There's a lady that we all know
who always sits on the second row.
She lost her husband and her child.
She's been coming here for quite awhile
and always has the sweetest smile.
When you ask her how she is,
She always sings God's praise.
She says,

I come with my broken heart,
Battered dreams and hopes,
Bound by the bonds we share
Of children gone and growing up,
Love lost, tragedies, memories of Christmas eve,
I've been through the fire
But God is still good to me.

There are gentle giants who walk by faith
And talk about the way God's grace
Has led them through the years.
And some of us have just begun
to see the light of God's own Son-
He's the reason that we meet
At the church on Ashley Street.

We come with our broken hearts,
Battered dreams and hopes,
Bound by the bonds we share
Of Children gone and growing up,
Love lost, tragedies, memories of Christmas eve---
We're bound by our love
And the truth that we believe.

There's a church down on Ashley Street.

c2005 Jennifer Moore