Mother Went a Walkin'-Jim Reeves

[ti:Mother Went a Walkin'] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:101 - He'll Have to Go: The Essential Jim Reeves] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mother Went a Walkin' - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯) [00:02.54]Shall we gather at the river that [00:08.32]Flows by the throne of God [00:14.06] [00:15.86]The church doors opened one Sunday [00:18.22]In a little country town [00:20.92]The people all were silent [00:22.33] [00:22.88]In the rain that misted down [00:26.16]And an old gray-haired granddad [00:28.30]His shoulders stooped with pain [00:29.85] [00:31.31]Was holdin' fast a little boy [00:33.36]Who kept cryin in the rain [00:36.49]And in the dim candlelight [00:38.17]Within a casket lay so still [00:42.09]That soon would lie beneath the earth up [00:45.27]At the top of the hill [00:47.57]The little boy kept askin in a low [00:50.04]And plaintive tone [00:53.00]What's wrong with mommy grandpa [00:54.75] [00:56.10]Won't she be comin home [00:58.66]It's awful lonesome grandpa [01:00.55]Since daddy went away [01:02.65]And mommy's all the reason [01:04.41]Why I'm happy every day [01:07.38]Wouldn't she feel better grandpa [01:08.92]If I layed down by her side [01:13.50]The old man turned and faced him [01:15.81]With these words replied [01:16.94] [01:20.43]Mother went a walkin son [01:24.27]Away up in the sky [01:26.38]Along the brook that winds among [01:28.54]The stars up there on high [01:31.54]And down the valley where the sun [01:33.38]Goes home at night to sleep [01:36.81]Mother went a walkin son [01:39.41]She wouldn't want us to weep [01:43.08]The boy didn't seem to understand just [01:45.52]Where his mom had gone [01:48.18]He couldn't realize that now [01:49.53] [01:51.13]She wouldn't be comin home [01:53.93]He saw the rain on grandpa's face [01:57.44]He didn't know he cried [01:59.66]And of course he couldn't hear the words [02:01.74]That grandpa said inside [02:07.01]Mother went a walkin son [02:11.95]Up yonder in the sky [02:14.21]And all that we can do down here son [02:16.57]Is bow our heads and cry [02:21.51]She's gone to meet your daddy son [02:23.15]And take him by the hand [02:27.77]Yes mother went a walkin son in [02:32.65]God's great meadowland