Joan Baez Little Moses lyrics

Away by the waters so blue<br />
The ladies were winding their way<br />
While Pharaoh's little daughter went down to the water<br />
To bathe in the cool of the day<br />
Before it was dark she opened the ark<br />
And found the sweet babe that was there<br />
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And away by the waters so blue<br />
The infant was lonely and sad<br />
She took him in pity and thought him so pretty<br />
And it made little Moses so glad<br />
She called him her own, her beautiful son<br />
And she sent for a nurse who was near<br />
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And away by the waters so blue<br />
They carried that beautiful child<br />
To his tender mother, to his sister and brothers<br />
Little Moses looked happy and smiled<br />
His mother so good did all that she could<br />

To raise him and teach him with care<br />
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And away by the sea that was red<br />
Little Moses the servant of God<br />
While in him confided, the sea was divided<br />
As upwards he lifted his rod<br />
And the Jews safely crossed while Pharaoh's host<br />
Was drowned in the waters and lost<br />
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And away on a mountain so high<br />
The last that he ever did see<br />
With Israel victorious, his hopes were most glorious<br />
That soon all the Jordan be free<br />
When his spirit did cease, he departed in peace<br />
And rested in the Heavens above