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Hee Haw Gospel Quartet performs "On the Jericho Road"

 

'The Rev. Don McCrossan (1908-1989) was an evangelist who in 1943 became director of the Victory Service Club, an outreach ministry to military personnel established the previous year by the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. As his obituary explains, “Through World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, [the VSC] was a place where young men and women in a strange city could gather for food and friendship. It also was a place of faith, McCrossan said in a 1961 interview, a place where tens of thousands formally accepted Christ and hundreds more were inspired to enter various ministries.” (LA Times, April 15, 1989). According to the URM website, the Victory Service Club was “a spiritual haven and gathering place for nearly two million servicemen during the war years.” McCrossan served as director until his retirement in 1975. McCrossan was also a singer and a composer of gospel songs and held down a side job as radio announcer on station KGER in Long Beach, California. He secured the copyright to “On the Jericho Road” in 1928 when he was only 20.

 

On the Jericho Road was written in 1928 by Don and Marguerete McCrossan and recorded by Elvis Presley.

 

A version of the song was recorded in 2000 by James Blackwood.

On The Jericho Road lyrics

 

As you travel along on the Jericho Road

Does the world seem all wrong and heavy your load

Just bring it to Christ, your sins all confess

On the Jericho Road your heart will be blessed

 

On the Jericho Road there's room for just two

No more and no less just Jesus and you

Each burden He'll bear, each sorrow He'll share

There's never a care for Jesus is there

 

Oh, brother to you this message I bring

Though hope may be gone He'll cause you to sing

At Jesus' command sins shackles must fall

On the Jericho Road will you answer His call

 

On the Jericho Road there's room for just two

No more and no less just Jesus and you

Each burden He'll bear, each sorrow He'll share

There's never a care for Jesus is there

On the Jericho Road


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