The Charlotte Mason education folks (which is partly where I got the idea for our Cultivating Beauty and Truth feast) are really into folk songs, but I didn’t add a folk song to our feast. I figured we had enough on our plate as it is.

Nevertheless, our psalm that we are memorizing, Psalm 1, never fails to remind me of this song, sung here by Johnny Cash. I suppose it’s a folk song, and it’s definitely taken from Psalm 1. Enjoy.

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

1 Blessed is the man

who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, 

nor stands in the way of sinners, 

nor sits in the seat of ^fscoffers; 

 2  but his delight is in the law of the Lord, 

and on his law he meditates day and night. 

 3  He is like a tree 

planted by streams of water 

that yields its fruit in its season, 

and its leaf does not wither. 

In all that he does, he prospers. 

 4  The wicked are not so, 

but are like chaff that the wind drives away. 

 5  Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, 

nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; 

 6  for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, 

but the way of the wicked will perish.