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![Mavis Staples - Beautiful Strangers (Live) [ft. Kevin Morby & Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zz_BL4xc_6U/mqdefault.jpg "Mavis Staples - Beautiful Strangers (Live) [ft. Kevin Morby & Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats]
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Beautiful Strangers by @mavisstaples from the album Sad And Beautiful World, out now
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Director: Rett Rogers
Cameras: Rett Rogers, Brendan Young, Jasper Gray, Daniel Sharkey
Edit: Rett Rogers
Color: Hennen Payne
Lighting: Jeremy Roth
Production Manager: Kenny Stahl
Special Thanks to the Night Sweats Crew and Mission Ballroom
Written by Kevin Morby
Produced by Brad Cook
Engineered & mixed by Brad Cook and Paul Voran
Mastering by Tim Smiley
Lyrics
If you ever hear that thunder
Put your eye to the sky, boy, and wonder
Maybe theres a kingdom above the weather
Oh, and whether youre gonna get our name is up to him
If you ever hear that crying
In the distance like some siren
Maybe theres a singer
With no ring around their little finger
No love
And If I lose my voice
If I have no choice but to go quiet
Wont you sing for me a melody into the night there
Well, if I die too young, if the wolf he comes
Fee-fi-fo-fum
If I die too young, oh, if the locust come
Well then, run, run, run
Free
If you ever hear that gunshot
You may think bout what you do but you dont got
Say a prayer, think of mother, I am a rock
If you ever hear that sound now
If the door gets kicked in here, they come now
Think of others, be their cover
I am what theyre not
Pray for Paris
They can not scare us
Or stop the music
Your sweet voice, child
Why dont you use it?
If I die too young, or the gunmen come, Im full of love
So release me, every piece of me, up above
(Up above, ooh ooh ooh)
Love my mama and my papa
Love my sister, cant stand the coppers up in their choppers
Oh, flying overhead, forty-nine dead
Singing, oh, my Lord, come carry me home
Oh, my Lord, come carry me home
Im singing oh, my God, oh, my Lord
Oh, my God, oh, my Lord
Oh, my God, oh, my Lord
Oh, my Lord
And if I die too young for something I aint done
Carry my name every day
Oh, Im sorry
Oh, Im sorry
Freddie Gray
But sleep easy like baby Jesus in a manger
Oh, sleep easy like little Jesus, beautiful stranger
Oh, beautiful stranger
If I die too young, let all that Ive done be remembered
And Ill sleep easy like baby Jesus in his manger
And Ill sleep easy like little Jesus, safe from danger
Carry onward, like some songbird, beautiful stranger
Carry onward, like some songbird, beautiful stranger
Oh, beautiful stranger
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