For forty days a giant walks out every morning and every evening and shouts the same thing at an army. Pick a man. Send him out to me. And for forty days nobody moves.
Then a boy turns up carrying bread for his brothers and asks who this man is. They try to put armour on him and it does not fit. He leaves it, picks five stones out of the brook, and walks to the middle with a sling.
He only needs one.
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
The World English Bible. A modern English translation made from the Hebrew and Greek, in plain language, and in the public domain.
Forty days he came out shouting
Forty days nobody moved
Big as a door and twice as loud
And the whole army stood still
Nobody moved
Nobody moved
Nobody moved
Nobody moved
Morning and evening (we heard him!)
Same words every day
Pick a man (we had none!)
Send him out to me
Big as a door
Big as a door
Then a boy came up (just a boy!)
Carrying bread for his brothers (just bread!)
And he said, who is this man
Five smooth stones!
Picked them up out of the brook
Five smooth stones!
One of them went in the sling
Five smooth stones
And he only needed one
Armour didn't fit him (take it off!)
Sword too heavy to carry (leave it!)
Just a stick and a sling
And a bag on his hip
Walking to the middle
Walking to the middle
He said you come with a spear (a spear!)
I come with a name (a name!)
And this battle was never mine to win
Five smooth stones!
Picked them up out of the brook
Five smooth stones!
One of them went in the sling
Five smooth stones
And he only needed one
Down he goes
Down he goes
Forty days of all that noise
Down he goes
I kept sheep on a hill where nobody looks
I fought a lion, I fought a bear
Nobody saw a thing God was doing in me
Till the day that it counted
One stone... one stone...
One stone... one stone...
Five smooth stones!
Picked them up out of the brook
Five smooth stones!
One of them went in the sling
(He only needed one! He only needed one!)
He only needed one
He only needed one
Five smooth stones