Lyrics - Save a Place for Jenny

Jenny was born to be a healer
With gentle hands and kind and caring way
She played nurse to her three little brothers
And rescued the lambs that went astray

No husband ever claimed Jenny
She was content with her life on the farm
She worked hard for her mama and papa
And guarded her brothers from harm

Save a place at the table for Jenny
She’s wandering out in the fields again today
She might be binding up a bird with a broken wing
or seeking shelter for some poor lost stray

Too often a sweet peace is broken
by guns that call brothers to fight
one by one those boys up and left the farm
turning Jenny’s sweet day to night

Jenny set the table each evening
For each brother she knew would return
She waited with her mama and papa
as the battles continued to burn

One day a call went out for nurses
to tend men wounded and sick from the war
Jenny knew in her heart she must answer that plea
she said farewell at the farmhouse door

Save a place at the table for Jenny
She’s wandering out in the fields again today
She might be binding up a bird with a broken wing
or seeking shelter for some poor lost stray

Jenny joined an army of angels
who faced a battle with death every day
They bound up the wounded with loving care
and for the dying they just eased the way

One last battle took a grievous toll
Jenny tended to the hurt through the night
But her heart could bear no more suffering
They found her dead by the morning light

All her brothers came back to the homeplace
And in their hearts for the past they did yearn
But they wept to sit at the table
Knowing Jenny would never return

Save a place at the table for Jenny
She’s wandering out in the fields again today
She might be binding up a bird with a broken wing
or seeking shelter for some poor lost stray

Fallen Tree Near Red Bridge

Water drowns the tree
toppled by last night’s cold wind.
Fish swim among leaves.
Who will set the tree up straight
back on its river bank perch?