Little Gray Donkey

(Little gray donkey, tonight)

(A miracle rests on your four small feet)

(Little gray donkey, tonight)

You know, after six days of creating the world

The Lord has surely earned His seventh day of rest

For instance, take the day He created the animals

Just as He was about finished, He picked up one more piece of clay

After shaping it to His liking, He added a pinch of courage, a dab of humility, six grains of faithfulness

This one He made just a little bit ugly

But He gave it a big handful of solemn wisdom

Gave it a little pat, and sent it on its way

And then, upon a winter's day, and in the long ago

The dusty road to Bethlehem was trod by many feet

And in that throng, a donkey walked, a donkey small and gray

As donkeys plod their donkey days, in cold, or rain, or heat

No hand reached out to touch him as he went his donkey way

No scribe set down his donkey name for men unborn to say

No eye could see a radiance about this lowly one

Who plodded on to Bethlehem, with Mary, and God's Son

(Oh, carry her safe to Bethlehem)

Little gray donkey, tonight

(A miracle rests on your four small feet)

Little gray donkey, tonight

All Heaven is watching your mission divine

And, over a stable, a star waits to shine

While shepherds and wise men all look for the sign

Little gray donkey, tonight

A king will come, the prophets cried

A king will come, like no king has come before

On noble steed, with golden crown and silver trumpet-call

But on that silent, holy night

There was no pomp, no pride, in Bethlehem

The child-king came to Bethlehem upon a donkey small

A donkey old, and tired, and gray

With long and drooping ears

And no one dreamed he brought our world

The light of after-years

A donkey plodding through the dust

To see God's will was done

And, bearing on his rugged back, the Virgin

And God's Son

(Oh, carry her safe to Bethlehem)

Little gray donkey, tonight

(A miracle rests on your four small feet)

Little gray donkey, tonight

All Heaven is watching your mission divine

And, over a stable, a star waits to shine

While shepherds and wise men all look for the sign

(Little gray donkey) Blessed little donkey

God's little donkey, tonight