All I Need (I Didn't Catch Her Name)

By Randall Goodgame / Mighty Molecule Music

Did not catch her name
Did not catch her tears
but they hit me like a train
When her story hit my ears
Mother of eight sons
Father off to war
Got no home address
Just bricks on a dirt floor
Jesus is all I need

Tiny plot of land
Corn stored up in piles
The years it doesn't rain
They just stay hungry for a while
With no fatted calf to kill
She made a feast of cuy and corn
She said, "Who else knew my name
Before the day that I was born?
Jesus is all I need
Jesus is all I need."

She bragged about her boys
How they're growin' into men
How they learned to praise the Lord
Old Style Ecuadorian
But to buy the new guitar
we had to sell the swine
See, my boys go to school on a foreign angel's dime.
This world calls me poor
I bore my babies on this floor
But he always provides
Sure as the sun will rise.
So I sing Him songs of praise
'Cause I know He keeps me in His gaze."

Rain fell from the sky
We raced back to the van
Tears in the eyes
Of this poor, forgetful man
Mother of eight sons
She knows the peace of God
Lord, help me learn to lean
On thy staff and thy rod
Jesus is all I need