A Time When it is Best to be a Monday Morning Quarterback

I wouldn’t want to be a Cossack / headed for that Palestine
Road / Thinking
about what’s written in the Word of God /About
the things that he’s foretold 

No, I
wouldn’t want to be there, down Jerusalem way

No, I
wouldn’t want to be there, headed for my grave

 

I
wouldn’t want to march with the comrades / when they enter Israel / Headed
straight into the fiery wrath of God /And
finding no escape from, well

 

I
wouldn’t want to be there, down Jerusalem way

No, I
wouldn’t want to be there, headed for my grave. 

~ Love Song, “The Cossack Song”

 Back in the late 70s or early 80s, I played drums in a
Christian rock band. While we had fun and played a few coffee houses and youth
group gatherings, we didn’t come close to hitting the big time. One of the
songs that we performed was “The Cossack Song” by Love Song – a song that played
on the theory then in vogue that the army of the Soviet Union would invade
Israel leading to the battle in the Valley of Jezreel….