Songs about Prayer and/Religion

[BeatleloverKT]

After checking thru all our topics, I could not find one about songs about prayer and religion. There are, I think, a lot of rock songs out there that fall into this category. The song can have it in the title or in a verse, talking about prayer or religion. We should have fun with this! I will start with a fav of mine:

"Losing my religion" by REM

[MaVolta]

Gabriel  -  Joe South

Preachers shout while sinners sin and old ladies cry
Fightin' causes, wavin' flags and God knows why
Turnin' water into wine
And they throw your pearls before the swine
And yet you trust them not to bust your balloon
So let me skip a page
And wake up in the new age
And the sun will be my shadow at high noon

Oh, Gabriel, Gabriel
Come on down to Atlanta and blow your horn
Hey, hey, hey, hey Gabriel, Gabriel
Come on down to Atlanta and blow your horn
Now, now, now
Crowd is runnin' wild
And I feel like a motherless child
But give me just a little more time to get my people together
Sounds perfectly bluesy
One more time

[DarcyFarrow]

Friends with You (Bill Danoff):

"Friends I will remember you,

Think of you, pray for you
And when another day is through
I'll still be friends with you"

[BeatleloverKT]

Too late for prayin’  Gordon Lightfoot

[MaVolta]

Million Reasons  -  Lady Gaga

I bow down to pray
I try to make the worst seem better
Lord, show me the way
To cut through all his worn out leather

[1968Hoya46]

Gates Of Eden: Dylan

[BeatleloverKT]

Mercy mercy me   Marvin Gaye (At songs

end, he is praying to the Lord about the

abuse to our land and sea)

[DarcyFarrow]

Gospel Changes (John Denver)

[DarcyFarrow]

Poems, Prayers and Promises (John Denver)

[BeatleloverKT]

Mercedes Benz  Janis Joplin

” Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz”

[DarcyFarrow]

Whenever I Say Your Name (Sting)

[BobH07]

Heaven Must Have Sent You:  Elgins

[1968Hoya46]

Every Grain Of Sand: Dylan

[BobH07]

He's Got The Whole World In His Hands:  Laurie London

[BobH07]

Every Night (I Pray):  Chantels

[cm9889168]

"Gospel Changes"  by John Denver

"Jesus, He did not doubt His gift
Though He knew that He had not long to live
He took care of the business
Teaching us how to fly
Then He bowed His head
And laid down to die"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClCYazSvZlM

[1968Hoya46]

The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald: Gordon Fitzgerald (In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed).

[nyadrn]

One of my favorites. This an old song. I remember my grandmother singing it

Old Rugged Cross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHlVkUGDK4&feature=share

On a hill far away, stood an old rugged Cross
The emblem of suff'ring and shame
And I love that old Cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain

So I'll cherish the old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a crown

Oh, that old rugged Cross so despised by the world
Has a wondrous attraction for me
For the dear Lamb of God, left his Glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary

So I'll cherish the old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a crown

[BeatleloverKT]

I'd do anything for love   Meatloaf

"Some days I pray for silence

Some days I pray for soul

Some days I just pray to the God of sex

and drums and rock 'n roll"......

[nyadrn]

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@BeatleloverKT wrote:

I'd do anything for love   Meatloaf

"Some days I pray for silence

Some days I pray for soul

Some days I just pray to the God of sex and drums

and rock 'n roll"......

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Good one!!

[BobH07]

I Met Her In Church by The Box Tops

[BeatleloverKT]

Up the ladder to the roof  Supremes

"Go up the ladder to the roof

where we can see heaven much better"

[BobH07]

Teen Age Prayer by Gale Storm

[BeatleloverKT]

R.O.C.K in the USA  John Mellencamp

"With the blind faith of Jesus you know

that they just might be Rockin' in the USA

Hey!"

[BobH07]

Jesus The Missing Years:  John Prine

[BobH07]

John Prine:

When I Get To Heaven

God Only Knows

[BobH07]

With God On Our Side:  Manfred Mann

[BeatleloverKT]

Gold dust woman  The Mac (Would never think to look to Stevie for prayer inspiration lol)

"Pick your path and I'll pray"

[BobH07]

The Promised Land:  Bruce Springsteen

[BobH07]

Seven Angels:  Bruce Springsteen

[BeatleloverKT]

I say a little prayer  Queen Aretha (I probably posted it before, but I can't get enough of this song)