Courtney Patton - Take Your Shoes Off Moses

I'm the Lord Thy God!

God spoke to Moses

Said the burning bush

(Said) I'm the Lord thy God.

  Take your shoes off Moses

  You're on holy ground

  Holy ground, holy ground

  Holy ground

  Take your shoes off Moses

  You're on Holy ground

  For I'm the Lord thy God.

Go yonder Moses (said)

Smack that rock

Go yonder Moses (said)

I'm the Lord thy God.

Stand still Moses

See the salvation works

Stand still Moses see the salvation works

(For) I'm the Lord thy God.

      Originally written by J. D. Jarvis (1967), "Take Your Shoes Off Moses" was made popular by the Stanley Brothers and Ricky Skaggs, but it was the version of Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys with Keith Whitley singing lead, that first caught Courtney's attention. Her arrangement pays tribute to the song’s bluegrass roots, the sound of which saw a resurgence during the 1960’s. Courtney's expansive voice, laced with deep Texas twang, gives new life to old themes of finding love and freedom where you can and trying to hold yourself together when it slips away.

      The roots of Southern Gospel reach back to a time when singing together was a way of life. People would come from miles around to join in song, and be a part of something that was bigger than each individual could ever be on their own. It was a real community of both Faith and music.

      These notes are with the video on the YouTube.