He Sang in the Old Church Choir (EN 655)

EN 655

He Sang in the Old Church Choir

Ps.21.13

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’Twas Easter Sunday morning,

To the village I had gone;

My boyhood home where lived the ones I loved;

At the church the preacher spoke the Word,

The choir sang sweetly, too,

And in their midst an old man sang

The old songs good and true;

His voice was sweet and tender,

I seem to hear him yet

Sing again an old refrain I never will forget.

How he sang in the old church choir

Olden songs, golden songs of a bygone day,

Sweet songs of gladness, songs, too, of sadness

That carried me far, far away,

And I longed in my soul for that heavenly goal

That he sang of so sweetly in those songs:

“Lead Kindly Light amid th’encircling gloom”

And “Rock of Ages cleft for me.”

Those were the songs, the old golden songs

That he sang in the old church choir.

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So here’s a simple lesson

Of the good that we can do

To help our fellow men along the way;

Just a word of cheer to those we meet

May ease an aching heart,

A song may save two souls that otherwise might drift apart.

Still in my memr’y that lingers

That singer and his song.

Sweet and low, so long ago,

To hear his voice I long.

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