A woman who came to the well

A woman who came to the well for some water

found someone she did not know;

a man sitting there all alone with no pail, and

wondered why he sat there so.

As she drew out water and then turned to go,

he said to her "Give me a drink."

The Samaritan woman was thrown for a loss

and she no longer knew what to think.

 

"How do you, a Jewish man, speak to me here,

much less ask me now for a drink?"

"If you knew who I was,!" you surely would ask me

for living water, I think."

"Sir, give me this water, I ask you, so I

would never need come here again!"

But he told her, "Go, call your husband" as if

he did not know her history with men.

 

She knew that he must be a prophet, at least,

yet questioned him more, nonetheless.

He answered her more and with prophetic vision,

and still she continued to press:

"I know the Messiah will come to us all,

and proclaim all things that will be."

And he said, "Do you see I am here talking to you?

Yes, I am the one; I am he."

 

She ran to her village to tell all the people

"There is a man you must see!

He told me of everything that I have done!

Could he the Anointed One be?"

They came and they heard and believed every word,

and asked him to stay two more days.

And so, this one Samaritan town knew the wonder

of Jesus and his saving ways.

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, March 2026, after John 4:1-45.

MUSIC: Tune SAMANTHRA (MAJOR), American folk melody, alt.

 

 

A hymn on the "woman at the well" story, tightened up just a little bit (the disciples get left out). Those who pay attention to the tunes chosen for these texts will note that this American folk tune, found in Glory to God at #77, is here flipped to major instead of the minor tune as it appears in the hymnal. Will probably need some polishing in the future, but it does fit to Lent 3A, so here it is just in case.