John and Josie - David Roth

John and Josie's only child

Young and handsome fast and wild

Joined the army at eighteen

Left the army at eighteen

Drifted then from job to job

Town to town and love to love

Seven years forever

Til young Johnny came marching home

But Johnny wasn't looking well

Went into the hospital

Days turned into several weeks

Johnny kept on losing weight

Josie said to John "Sit down"

John cried "Oh God not my son"

Johnny left at twenty five

A hole as big as Jupiter

Nothing stronger than the love John

And Josie had for Johnny

Threw him his last birthday party

No one from the family came

No one from the family came

Turned John and Josie's grief to shame

Shame to anger anger pain

Nothing they needed more of

Two years gone the telephone

Is ringing in the dim-lit den

Beneath the wooden crucifix

That John had punched the day he learned

That Johnny wouldn't live much longer

Now a voice said to his father

"John we have a baby here

And no one seems to want him

The baby doesn't have his parents

Two months old and with their virus "

Josie grabbed the phone from John

The two of them said "Yes yes yes"

So John and Josie over sixty

Taking in a brand new baby

Named him Paul Antonio

Johnny would have loved him

Nothing stronger than the love

That John and Josie had for Johnny

The same love that they have for Paul

They're starting up the wheel again

And of the fear the same could happen

Losing Paul before his time comes

John and Josie look right past it

They're basking in love's mighty presence

John and Josie don't have time

They're basking in love's migh