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Zaccheus

from On The Way by Adam Tucker Composer

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A song from the point of view of Zaccheus, a tax collector who climbed a tree to get a better view of Jesus

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Well, I might seem a little on the small side
And people tend to judge things by their size
And they measure someone’s worth by the space they take on earth
They never learn to look with different eyes

Once I thought my worth was in possessions
The things with which I filled my empty days
But I’m sure that you’ve been told all that glitters is not gold
I only knew my true worth when Jesus came to stay

And he said
Zacheus, Zacheus
Come down from that sycamore tree
Zacheus, Zacheus
I’m coming to your house for tea

Jesus, he was going to come to town and
I just had to see with my own eyes
But because I’m rather wee, I climbed up the sycamore tree
To see this Jesus as he passed on by

Well, there I waited, trying not to be seen
Looking for the man I’d come to see.
And the people how they sneered, and the people how they jeered
To see a tax collector in a tree

And then amongst the crowds there in the street
Looking like a carpenter, , the dust upon his feet
And he came, and he stopped, just beneath my hiding place
and he smiled as he looked into my face

And he said
Zacheus, Zacheus
Come down from that sycamore tree
Zacheus, Zacheus
I’m coming to your house for tea

I nearly fell out of that dang old tree and
I said, Lord are you sure it’s me you mean?
Lord, you see, I’m not that good And I’m not sure that you should
And He said to me, All that’s not worth a bean

Cause Zacheus, Zacheus
Come down from that sycamore tree
Zacheus, Zacheus
I’m coming to your house for tea

For I alone see what you’re truly worth
And I have come to seek and save the lost on planet earth
And Zacheus my friend, it’s far more than you know
For love has found you in this place and so

Zacheus, Zacheus
Come down from that sycamore tree
Zacheus, Zacheus
I’m coming to your house for tea

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from On The Way, released September 30, 2021

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Adam Tucker Composer Coventry, UK

I write and produce music for TV, for schools, and as a singer song-writer.

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