Hi,

In the show last month Arlo sang a song that started, "Take off, takeoff your shoes/this ground you walk is holy ground..."


Can anybody tell me what the title is, who wrote it and where I might find the lyrics. I would have thought it to be a traditional folk song, but I don't remember ever hearing it before.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mark

Boy do I feel enlightened now! I plugged in the words "take off your shoes" and added the word "lyrics" and Googled the phrase. I got hits for everything from BB King to Joe Cocker to Five for Fighting.

So I tried something a little bit differently and voila! It's a Woody song LOL

Holy Ground


Take off, take off your shoes
This place you’re standing, it’s holy ground
Take off, take off your shoes
The spot you’re standing, its holy ground

These words I heard in my burning bush
This place you’re standing, it’s holy ground
I heard my fiery voice speak to me
This spot you’re standing, it’s holy ground

That spot is holy holy ground
That place you stand it’s holy ground
This place you tread, it’s holy ground
God made this place his holy ground

Take off your shoes and pray
The ground you walk it’s holy ground
Every spot on earth I trapse around
Every spot I walk it’s holy ground

Every spot it’s holy ground
Every little inch it’s holy ground
Every grain of dirt it’s holy ground
Every spot I walk it’s holy ground

Words by Woody Guthrie
Music by The Klezmatics
© 2001 Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.

Thanks so much Terrie!

I had a feeling it was one of Woody's songs. Nobody else gets to the heart of the matter as fast as he did.

I tried the Arlonet lyrics, but could not find it. I didn't think Google would help.

Thanks again!

Mark