Joan Osborne - One of Us

[Intro:]

(So one of these nights and about twelve o'clock,

This old world's goin' ta reel and rock.

Saints will tremble and cry for pain,

For the Lord's gonna come in his heavenly airplane.)

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If God had a name what would it be?

And would you call it to his face?

If you were faced with him in all his glory

What would you ask if you had just one question?

And yeah, yeah God is great

Yeah, yeah God is good

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like?

And would you want to see?

If seeing meant that you would have to believe

In things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints

And all the prophets

And yeah, yeah God is great

Yeah, yeah God is good

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home

Tryin' to make his way home

Back up to heaven all alone

Nobody callin' on the phone

'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

Yeah, yeah God is great

Yeah, yeah God is good

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home

Like a holy rolling stone

Back up to heaven all alone

Just tryin' to make his way home

Nobody callin' on the phone

'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

1. The album version starts off with the first four lines of a recording titled "The Aeroplane Ride", made on October 27, 1937 by American folklorist Alan Lomax and his wife Elizabeth for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, of Mrs. Nell Hampton of Salyersville, Kentucky singing a variation of the 1928 John S. McConnell hymn "Heavenly Aeroplane"

(Wikipedia)