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Recorded Reading (0:53): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ygs78e8mb5b22ohl981yt/Give-Us-Barrabas.mp3?rlkey=80oc3get4pdm7vo08kj56zg80&dl=0

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Give Us Barrabas!

If they want to despise you
They’re going to find a way
Be you as transparent 
As the dawning of the day

Be you as uprighteous
As a tow’ring totem pole,
Strive you with your final strength
To serve the greater whole

Smile you from the heart
And offer all your very best ~
They won’t rest until they’ve 
Put it to such thorough test

That they have destroyed
What they might have enjoyed
Sacrificing quality
To petty venal jealousy

Much easier it makes it
When selfish self believes
“We’re sure He must be faking it ~
He once hung out with thieves”

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