Shall We Gather At The River (Mother Went A-Walking)-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) [00:02.61]Shall we gather at the river that [00:07.88]Flows by the throne of God [00:13.21] [00:15.87]The church doors opened one [00:17.42]Sunday in a little country town [00:20.01] [00:21.04]The people all were silent in the rain [00:23.84]Misted down [00:25.41] [00:26.23]And an old gray haired granddad [00:28.40]His shoulders stooped with pain [00:31.45]Was holdin' fast a little boy [00:33.40]Who kept cryin' in the rain [00:35.24] [00:36.60]And in the dim candlelight within [00:39.26]A casket lay so still [00:41.92]That soon would lie beneath the earth [00:45.29]Up at the top of the hill [00:47.10] [00:47.79]The little boy kept askin' in a low and plaintive tone [00:51.85] [00:53.25]What's wrong with mommy grandpa [00:54.63] [00:56.30]Won't she be comin' home [00:57.70] [00:58.92]It's awful lonesome grandpa since [01:00.88]Daddy went away [01:02.17] [01:02.87]And mommy's all the reason why [01:04.26]I'm happy every day [01:06.18] [01:07.66]Wouldn't she feel better grandpa if [01:10.05]I layed down by her side [01:12.20] [01:13.69]The old man turned and faced him [01:16.38]With these words replied [01:17.94] [01:20.65]Mother went a walkin' son [01:24.74]Away up in the sky [01:26.66]Along the brook that winds [01:28.25]Among the stars up there on high [01:30.63] [01:31.89]And down the valley where the sun [01:33.55]Goes home at night to sleep [01:35.45] [01:37.08]Mother went a walkin' son [01:39.05] [01:39.68]She wouldn't want us to weep [01:41.40] [01:43.42]The boy didn't seem to understand [01:44.37] [01:45.60]Just where his mom had gone [01:46.99] [01:48.58]He couldn't realize that now [01:50.72] [01:51.47]She wouldn't be comin' home [01:52.74] [01:54.27]He saw the rain on grandpa's face [01:55.72] [01:57.90]He didn't know he cried [01:59.06] [01:59.97]And of course he couldn't hear [02:01.52]The words that grandpa said inside [02:05.42] [02:07.43]Mother went a walkin' son [02:11.56] [02:12.30]Up yonder in the sky [02:13.55] [02:14.66]And all that we can do down here [02:16.63]Son is bow our heads and cry [02:20.13] [02:21.94]She's gone to meet your daddy [02:23.31]Son and take him by the hand [02:27.40] [02:28.09]Yes mother went a walkin' [02:31.22]Son in God's great meadowland