The title of “Jesus on the Shore” comes from an incident recorded in the Gospel of John. After Jesus’s resurrection, his disciples go fishing. Though they fish all night, they don’t catch anything. John 21:4-7:
But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not...
[Verse 1: Derri Daugherty]
Is that Jesus on the shore?
It's the Lord, it's the Lord
Is that Jesus on the shore?
Open doors, closed doors
It's the Lord
[Verse 2: Terry Scott Taylor]
Is He in the circumstance?
Not by chance, not by chance
In His hand is providence
Open doors, closed doors
It's the Lord
[Chorus]
Be free, brethren
Be free, brethren
Be free, brethren
Be free
Be free, brethren
Move and be, brethren
Be free, brethren
Be free
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3: Derri Daugherty]
Give him thanks in everything
Everything, He is king
[Terry Scott Taylor]
Give him thanks in everything
When it brings suffering
He is king
[Verse 1: Mike Roe]
Is that Jesus on the shore?
It's the Lord, it's the Lord
Is that Jesus on the shore?
Open doors, closed doors
It's the Lord
[Chorus]
Be free, brethren
Be free, brethren
Be free, brethren
Be free
Be free, brethren
Move and be, brethren
Be free, brethren
Be free
[Chorus]
Be free, brethren
(Is that Jesus on the shore?)
Be free, brethren
(It's the Lord, it's the Lord)
Be free, brethren
(Is that Jesus on the shore?)
Be free
(Open doors, closed doors)
Be free, brethren
(Is that Jesus on the shore?)
Move and be, brethren
(It's the Lord, it's the Lord)
Be free, brethren
Be free
Jesus On The Shore was written by Terry Scott Taylor.
Jesus On The Shore was produced by Lost Dogs & Phil Madeira.
Lost Dogs released Jesus On The Shore on Tue Mar 25 2003.
In a 2019 post to his Patreon subscribers, Terry Taylor explained that the origins of “Jesus on the Shore” were in a dream:
A few nights after the death of my dear friend Gene Eugene [ … ] I had a particularly vivid dream: Gene and I were in an old fishing boat out on an unspecified sea when I happ...