"read all about it" Song #33

This song has been on my mind for some time. I wrote this in the seventies I think. I say that because of the content. I didn't believe all that was written here until I accepted Christ and began to seriously study God's word. I was writing and sending material off to Johnny Cash. I would send the tapes and lyrics to Johnny Erdelyne who was the go to person for music for Mr. Cash's review. It was rejected but I always thought it would have been a great song for him at the time.
I must admit that I know very little about the newer music of today. I am still working on these songs and music still trying to produce some kind of interest. So much of today's music is not very appealing to me. Can't help it, I try but I still prefer music with a good melody and a strong and meaningful lyric. Too much of the stuff today is for a wrong message or just a special rhythm. Once in a while a song will come along with a special message and a strong melody. Some artists stand out of course. I enjoy a lot of energy and spirit in a song. I lean towards country but today's country is more of a rock song with way too much noise and it loses the beauty of the melody and you hardly understand the lyric. I do enjoy a lot of the new Christian songs and choruses.
This song "Read All About It" says a lot. It is a song of prophecy and comes from thoughts on the books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Psalms and Revelation. The message is the same. I think we are living in the times of the end.

Song number 33

"Read All About it"                                                     

Copyright 1995

Johnny Blodgett Composer

Read all about it. . . . . . . Read All about it.

Did you hear what the man on the radio said?

Another earthquake, two thousand dead,

Multitudes suffering and underfed.

Thousands perish as sickness spreads.

Mmm. . . .mmm.....mmm.

Read all about it. . . . . . . Read all about it.

Pick up the paper and read the headlines;

War continues, the death toll climbs;

troops are shredded by enemy mines;

kingdoms fight over boundary lines.

Mmm. . . .mmm.....mmm.

Read all about it. . . . . . . Read all about it.

Look all around you and read the signs.

Science advances and morals decline;

Prophecy sold of the end of times;

Ten major nations will soon align.

Mmm. . . .mmm.....mmm.

Read all about it. . . . . . . Read all about it.

The world won't listen till the very last day.

When the sun is darkened, who will pray?

When all God's children have been taken away,

There won't be anything left to say.

Mmm. . . .mmm.....mmm.

Mmm. . . .mmm.....mmm.

Read all about it . . . . . . Read all about it

It's in the book.