“Community Strong” lyrics
The town that I live in has grown fast in a little bit of time.
People coming from near and far and with me you know that’s fine
Oh, oh, that’s just fine.
They say love makes the word go round and it’s good when we all get along, And that is true cause we have found we pull together and we can’t go wrong.
Oh, oh, can’t go wrong.
Mt. Juliet commissioners proclaim ‘Community Strong’ city’s official song
During their regular meeting Monday, Mt. Juliet city commissioners unanimously proclaimed the song “Community Strong,” written and sung by Mt. Juliet Police Chief James Hambrick, as the official city of Mt. Juliet song.
All five Board of Commission members presented the resolution, and Hambrick will sing the song at the beginning of the city’s highly anticipated 50th anniversary event scheduled for July 16 from 4-9 p.m. at Charlie Daniels Park. This comes on the heels of local optometrist Dr. Pete Davis’ impassioned proposal to commissioners that they consider this song as Mt. Juliet’s official song during citizen’s comments at the June 27 meeting.
Davis said he was at Hambrick’s CD release party early in June and heard him sing the song. He noted the city will celebrate its 50th anniversary on July 16 and it would be appropriate to announce an official song.
“The event will be of great fellowship,” Davis said June 27. “Chief Hambrick has a heart and love for this city… This song on the album will make this celebration even more special.”
“As for the song, ‘Community Strong,’ the Lord gave me that song one night while I was sitting on my back porch relaxing and meditating on Him,” Hambrick said. “I took it to the studio and my co-writers and I tweaked it a little and that’s it. It is birthed out of the experiences I have witnessed in this community. The resilience and love for each other, especially in times of trials.”
When asked his favorite lines in the song, Hambrick said he loves the entire song, especially the main line.
“When it’s you and me, we’re community strong, when it’s you and me, we’ve got the strength to carry on. So, let’s all get together now and sing it like a song, oh, oh we’re community strong.”
The CD project is called “Somebody’s Gotta Tell Them,” a compilation of eight full-length songs based on Hambrick’s decades in law enforcement. They are his stories and he is the singer. He wrote it with two prominent Nashville songwriters.
Chorus
When it’s you and me, we’re community strong
When it’s you and me we got the strength to carry on.
So, let’s all get together now and sing it like a song.
Oh, oh, we’re community strong
Oh, oh, we’re community strong
Round here it’s more than a motto printed on a hat
Yes, we really love our neighbors, and we got each other’s back.
Chorus
When it’s you and me, we’re community strong
When it’s you and me we got the strength to carry on.
So, let’s all get together now and sing it like a song.
Oh, oh, we’re community strong
Oh, oh, we’re community strong
It’s you and me when the wind blows
Out here when the water flows
Higher than it ought to be, and for my brothers and my sisters barely keeping it together, trapped in the time of need.
Chorus
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