Cockburn, Bruce - Mary Had A Baby Lyrics

first heard this on my way to Parry Sound just before Christmas a few years back. Such a catchy tune I sang it all the way to th cottage. Love it.

Sad they don't play this on the radio at Christmas time.. great song!

Clang Nepal!

Love this Christmas song... Love Bruce

Merry Christmas 2019 to everyone!

Beautiful

I heard this song on the radio last year, and I love it

play this first thing when i get up better then a strong coffee

Teletubbies: Christmas in the UK.

“The people keep coming but the train has gone” ?????

Eva Puddick meaning some didn't stay to follow our Lord.

It's a month after Christmas but I'm still gonna listen to this

https://youtu.be/seJAOWHUeJE reminds me of Taj

Very, very good!

Exposure to the  Son will prevent burning

Just perfect

I listen to this when I put up the Christmas tree

I always couldn't wait for this song to come on whenever the Christmas countdown played every year on a local station the last saturday before Christmas.

Love this song. Great job. thank

Who likes to party?

Feel good Christmas music

Even though i am both Jewish and Atheist i like this song.

Is that possible? Mutually exclusive terms?( No malice intended) - pagan😍 Blessings❤

ALL ABOARD THE CHRISTMAS PET ADOPTION TRAIN, BUT REMEMBER A PET IS FOR LIFE.............................................................................................

One my favorites!!!! Thank you for posting it.

It's the Glory Train!! Get on board with Jesus while you can... When the train leaves it will be too late!

Charlesworth G I listen to great music like this all year round weather it's Christmas or not.
This is about the blessed Saviour Jesus. You're absolutely right, this song is about the glory train and the conductor is Jesus!
God bless you. He is the Lord and He reigns on high.

I love this song😀

if all christian was like this more people would lesson.

AMEN ! Did you mean listen ? It's actually true either way

It`s still my fav Christmas song (ha ha ha). Merry Christmas Everyone

Exodus Pessoa All year round this is the perfect Christian song. It's very powerful for me actually. God is so good all the time

Exodus Pessoa You too. All the best in 2017

That Christmas Train keeps a'coming. Sort of reminds you of Dave and Morley every year.

What ever you do people; don't miss that train!!!!!!!!

Mary Christmas everyone

Zawseh Gaming To You as well and all the best!

By far my favorite Christmas album.

merry Christmas all!!

merry Christmas everyone

Cockburn lol

and there are others how know about this miracle birth
the humblest people catch a glimpse of their worth
and it isn't to a palace that the Christ child comes
but to shepherds and street-people, hookers and bums.

i did this for my christmas concert

i i am not having a chirsmas concert i was going to play this

MORE COWBELL!!

My new favourite Christmas Song (ha ha ha).

I love to play it in July as well as December. That rollicking, joyful zydeco beat. What song!

In San Francisco? See Christmas with Cockburn live this year (2015). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/christmas-with-cockburn-live-tickets-19306656730)

tank you krismes

Merry Christmas everyone...

+Eva Teresa Buyco Same To You Merry Christmas

My favorite Christmas song... Just sayin'

love this song and sad that did not hear any of our radio stations play it this past Christmas Season!

Great stylistic version.

Great, uplifting Christmas song!  Cockburn's memoir just came out: "Rumours of Glory". Should be a good read, the guy CAN write!  

oh I love this song! reminds me of going to my grandparents house on Christmas eve :)

Is it too early to play the Christmas CD?   I hope not!  

Yaaaaaa

Woooooo

AMAZING!

Bruce Cockburn's never sung a song that I wouldn't love to hear.  Great choice for a cover--and very interesting.  According to album notes quoted on the website "The Cockburn Project," which gathers comments he's made about his songs: "This call-and-response song appears to have originated on the South Carolina coastal island of Saint Helena in the last century. The verses follow a fairly predictable pattern till you get to 'moving in the elements...'" And that is the most intriguing aspect of this traditional song...there's a lot of mystery in that area of the world, and I want to learn more.  With love, Namaste and Merry Christmas, Pam

Same here, Joyce. Love this song.  "Moving in the elements...."

The train has gone?

yep dont over think it bro

One of my Christmas faves from a fellow Ottawan. This songs has more hooks than the average tackle-box.

I love his music:) I always wondered what "the people keep coming but the train is gone"meant they did not have trains in those days. Can anyone give me a answer ?

Melanie Alexader it means...don't lose sight of the Lord once you find him. Don't miss the train to truth and true love of the Father.

nice song eastern here now

well he is my step grandfother bruce cockburn

D&B Gaming love his songs and his voice!!!

Love theses songs where can i buy the cd. and are all those songs on the same cd.

We listened to this on Christmas eve at my aunts house and everybody clapped their hands so much fun

One of the very best Christmas albums ever.

A nice, easy tune for young families to sing together. It's fun to have the kids playing the spoons or a washboard.
Merry Christmas!

great song!

Great tune! Thanks for posting this! This album goes is going to be added to my Christmas collection!

Glad I made you chuckle :) and yes it is a great song! a favorite in my house this time of year.

Thanks for that background on the song. However I'm LMAO at your "I'm about as religious as a toaster" phrase. This is a greats song.

Beautiful. Simply beautiful...

toe tapper

@rco20 Fascinating! ... in a weird kind of way. One can't help but wonder where people like this come from.

@rco20 I'll quote Warren Zevon on this one, "Enjoy every sandwich", you can even enjoy your dogshit sandwich. I can only imagine with your taste in films what kind of music you like. Avatar, really? What are you 15? At least the public wasn't subjected to Dances with Wolves Part II!

Wait... so let me get this straight... Jesus is a train? Would that make Casey Jones "Saint Casey of the Cocaine"?!

(By the way, I love all of Bruce Cockburn's stuff.)

This thread is too funny! Bruce Cockburn didn't write this song, it's a traditional negro spiritual hence the lyrics. The "train" is Christ. Now I"m about as religious as a toaster but it was genius on Cockburn's part to take a black spiritual and marry it to an uptempo cajun/zydeco melody...

love this song.. just saying :)

I heard this for the first time on the radio today, I love it!

please check out my cover of it? Im 15 and trying to make it as a musician:) merry xmas

Heard this on the radio and was totally surprized its Bruce Cockburn....Great Tune !!!!

for cryin' out loud. can anyone not just enjoy a song with out having a debate?

@217mikeo It's not "last century" it's "FIRST" century. You must be blind as a god damn bat or you don't know how to read. Do you know what know what an abbreviation is? example: 1'st, 2'nd, 3'rd fucking 4'th!?! No matter what you say it isn't goinng to change my mind this song still blows!

a dislike rly how messed in the head is this person? how can u not like this song?!?

There are many who decide not to be christians and to believe. So sad to know this. They would rather turn to drugs, alcohol, pornography, and more. We need to pray for them.

@rco20 and to clarify 'last centruy' the cd is copyright 1993, So 'last century' would be the 1800's.

@rco20 according to the liner notes on the CD, "this call and response song appears to have originated on the South Carolina coastal island of Saint Helena in the last century" So much for an artist jamming in some random story and a catchy melody to make a hit.

@217mikeo to a future time when "the train has died and gone but people keep coming to the cause" Your stretching on a longshot if you think that's the meaning. Who knows what he meant, people like you look into music to hard, have you ever thought an "artist" just jams in some random story makes a catchy melody and it makes it a hit by chance? It happenes more often then you think I bet. So go ahead and feel sorry for me that's fine. I don't feel sorry for you, I don't feel anything for you.

@217mikeo
My guess is that Bruce Cockburn heard the train mentioned in the bible and thought it would sound good in his song since it's "A good old fashioned country melody" hey why not put a cowbell in that song too...! I think your looking into to this song way too hard. Thanks....for the history lesson but it is irrelevant. Christ was born in the 1'st century or somewhere close to it, the concept of the train was not around then, and even if you believe he is refering

@rco20 furthermore: There is also the historical image of the Underground Railroad, which took passengers from station to station on its way to physical freedom...."The phrase may constitute a spiritual warning. Mary's baby represents freedom, salvation and deliverance. "Oh my LORD!" Do not miss your opportunity to worship him. Jesus is the way out of sin and death."
rco, I feel sorry for you. You have no understanding of the history of music. And no tolerance.

@rco20 Trains were a new reality in the newly emerging industrial age of the early nineteenth century. They connected places that had been previously isolated. Trains represented a way out, whether physical spiritual, or imaginative. Train imagery figures prominently in Africa American lore. In the spiritual 'Get on Board, Little Children' 'the gospel train is coming, the cog wheel is a-moving' and rumblin' through the land." "Get on board" to reach the land of spriitual freedom.

I love this song. Love the beat of the music. I play it any time I need an up lift.

@ClandestineSnowman
Bah Humbug! lol Merry Christmas

Love it!

@rco20 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

@2babybirds Why'd you get rid of your comment? huh?!

Thank You for your fine Work :) QC

one of my son's favorite Christmas songs!

Look forward to this song every Christmas. Just the kind of song that makes you happy.

Love this! Give a listen to Bruce's Early on One Christmas Morn. You'll absolutely love it! Merry Christmas!

@MegaAnointedone I wonder if you're looking for the same "Mary had a baby" song that I am... with lyrics like "The Angel said “Mary, you’re gonna have a baby.
The world will call Him Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, and the Prince of Peace.”

I found out that it was written in 1976 by Kathy McGovern and released by the group Ekklesia. If you google those names, you can find sheet music and MP3 for purchase.

this is mt favorite christmas song of all time. It's really too bad no one knows it.

My favorite Christmas song EVER!