God Lives in Kentucky

By John A Logan

God is good to Indiana

 As a father to his child

But He made our old Kentucky

 And just looked at her and smiled.

Then He made the broad Ohio

 Circle ‘round this land so fair

As a mother hugs her baby

 To her heart with tender care.

Yes, God when to Indiana

 And He blessed each hill and glade;

But He came down to Kentucky 

 And just sat down there and stayed.

Here He made Davis and Lincoln

 Destined each to play his part;

And a sacrifice so noble, 

 Healed a nation’s broken heart.

And George Rogers Clark He sent with

 His Kentucky Rifle band, 

To release His Indiana

 From the Englis tyrant’s hand.

Then He sent old Jim Bowie

 ‘Way out to the Alamo

And they made the State of Texas

 Out of Northern Mexico.

Here He heard the call of Jackson

 ‘Way down south at New Orleans,

Ad He sent Kentucky soldiers

 Uniformed in home-made jeans.

When, because each one sought freedom

 War between the state was made, 

To the South He sent Jeff Davis, 

 To the North, old Honest Abe.

We believe our God will tell you, 

 Tho’ forever you may roam, 

That the nearest place to Heaven

 Is the “Old Kentucky Home.”

It is just as clear can be

 That God loves and freely gives

To the other states His blessings;

 But Kentucky’s where He lives.

Published in the Kentucky Explorer, November 1990, page 29