Hold On It's Coming - Country Joe McDonald

McDonald

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Picked up a hitchhiker the other day

He said he wasn’t going far

He looked so strange I couldn’t help myself

I asked, «Please, tell me who you are.»

He smiled politely and lit a cigarette

The smoke seemed to cast a spell

What happened next I don’t understand

Yet it was so strange I can hardly tell

He said, hold on it’s coming Hold on it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s very near Hold on it’s near

He said, hold on it’s coming Hold on it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s almost here.

Hold on it’s almost here

My mind seemed to spin and my hands began to tremble

I began talking in tongues

I looked over and his eyes seemed to glow

It was like looking at the sun

I told him everything in just a few moments

As if we had stopped time

I felt the great light just as if I were floating

It was truly blowing my mind

He said, hold on it’s coming Hold on it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s very near It’s very near

He said, hold on it’s coming Oh, hold on it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s almost here.

Hold on it’s almost here

And then I was suddenly a child again

Holding my father’s hand

And I watched it from the beginning

As I grew from child to man

My friends all came and gathered round me once more

We undid what was done

And when it was over I was driving down the road

I looked around and he was gone

He said, hold on it’s coming Hold on it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s very near Hold on it’s almost here

He said, hold on it’s coming Hold on it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s almost here.

Hold on it’s very near

He said, hold on it’s coming Yeah, it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s very near Hold on it’s very near

He said, hold on it’s coming Hold on it’s coming

He said, hold on it’s almost here.

Hold on it’s almost here