[Words & music - Kirkpatrick]
[Genesis 2:14, Revelation 7:17]


Through famine, flood and choking mud the ancient river flows
Bringing life and death, transporting friend and foe


To build their cities by its banks the hopeful people chose
Fortify the walls - the fortress grows
Secure within the confiness of the stone

But what awaited them they couldn't have known

Healing waters of the Tigris

Ever flowing and all knowing
Healing waters of the Tigis
Washing over me


612 BC the Tigris floods and builds in turbulence
Pagan land of Nineveh - self-righteous over confidence

The rising torrent crushed stone and the courses on it's way

God's judgment on that fatedful day - a terrible price to pay

The greatest city of all - Nineveh - with a towering city walls
The awesome power of the swollen river Tigris - caused that massive city to fall


Healing waters of the Tigris
Ever flowing and all knowing
Living water of Jehovah

Balm of Gilead