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Song: God Didn't Choose Sides
Artist: Marty Raybon
Songwriters: Mark "Brink" Brinkman, Paula Breedlove Paulajon
Music Video Director: Sammy Passamano III

"As soon as we reached the water's edge, we began to sing that grand old hymn 'There is a Fountain Filled with Blood' and at once the enemy began to leave their works and hastened to the riverside." -Reverend Willie Ragland, Chaplain of the 13th Virginia Brigade.

In December 1863, the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia came together over the Rapidan River, not in violence, but in song. Though just days before they were locked in bloody conflict, on this cold morning God was praised as they sang together the old hymn, "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood", while a Confederate soldier (Goodwin from Company A) was baptized by the Confederate Chaplain. Despite being enemies, the tired and homesick men laid down their weapons to celebrate Jesus, and embrace the truth that God didn't choose sides.

Song Lyrics

On a river in Virginia, in the middle of a war
there were Rebels on the south side and Yankees on the north
The sounds of war fell silent till all that could be heard
Were the songs of faith in Jesus both sides knew them word for word.

God didn't choose sides
'Tween the blue and gray
He didn't choose sides....in His eyes they were the same
For every man who died, heaven's arms were open wide
They'd hear "soldier welcome home"
God didn't choose sides.

Now on both river banks together souls of blue and gray were saved
they were baptized in the waters where blood had flowed that day
Some soon would meet in heaven where on calm and peaceful ground
All husbands, sons and fathers would finally lay their weapons down.

CHORUS: (Repeat)

For every man who died, heaven's arms were open wide
They'd hear "soldier welcome home"
God didn't choose sides.