Shall We Gather at the River-Jim Reeves

[ti:Shall We Gather At The River (Mother Went A-Walking)] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:Red Eyed And Rowdy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shall We Gather At The River (Mother Went A-Walking) - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯) [00:02.58]Shall we gather at the river that [00:07.85]Flows by the throne of God [00:15.85]The church doors opened one [00:17.39]Sunday in a little country town [00:21.01]The people all were silent in the rain [00:23.82]Misted down [00:26.20]And an old gray haired granddad [00:28.38]His shoulders stooped with pain [00:31.42]Was holdin' fast a little boy [00:33.37]Who kept cryin' in the rain [00:36.57]And in the dim candlelight within [00:39.23]A casket lay so still [00:41.90]That soon would lie beneath the earth [00:45.27]Up at the top of the hill [00:47.76]The little boy kept askin' in a low and plaintive tone [00:53.22]What's wrong with mommy grandpa [00:56.28]Won't she be comin' home [00:58.89]It's awful lonesome grandpa since [01:00.85]Daddy went away [01:02.85]And mommy's all the reason why [01:04.24]I'm happy every day [01:07.63]Wouldn't she feel better grandpa if [01:10.02]I layed down by her side [01:13.66]The old man turned and faced him [01:16.35]With these words replied [01:20.63]Mother went a walkin' son [01:24.72]Away up in the sky [01:26.63]Along the brook that winds [01:28.23]Among the stars up there on high [01:31.86]And down the valley where the sun [01:33.53]Goes home at night to sleep [01:37.05]Mother went a walkin' son [01:39.65]She wouldn't want us to weep [01:43.40]The boy didn't seem to understand [01:45.57]Just where his mom had gone [01:48.55]He couldn't realize that now [01:51.45]She wouldn't be comin' home [01:54.25]He saw the rain on grandpa's face [01:57.87]He didn't know he cried [01:59.95]And of course he couldn't hear [02:01.50]The words that grandpa said inside [02:07.41]Mother went a walkin' son [02:12.27]Up yonder in the sky [02:14.63]And all that we can do down here [02:16.60]Son is bow our heads and cry [02:21.91]She's gone to meet your daddy [02:23.28]Son and take him by the hand [02:28.06]Yes mother went a walkin' [02:31.19]Son in God's great meadowland