All I Need

Did not catch her name 

Did not catch her tears 

It 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 

Years it doesn't rain 

They just stay hungry for a while 

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 

To buy the new guitar 

They had to sell the swine 

Said, "My boys go to school on a foreign angel's dime. 

This world calls me poor 

I bore my babies on this floor 

He always provides 

Sure as the sun will rise. 

So I'll sing Him songs of praise 

'Cause I know He'll keep me in His gaze." 

Rain poured from the sky 

We raced back to the van 

There were 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 

Jesus is all I need