HE IS MY EVERYTHING
(Epic BN-26424)
1968
Produced by Billy Sherrill
Recorded:
Sept 12/1968, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville
1.
GREAT SPECKLED BIRD
(Roy Carter - Guy Smith)
« © '36 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
What a beautiful thought I am thinking concerning a great speckled bird
Remember her name is recorded on the pages of God's holy word
Desiring to lower her standards they watch every move that she makes
They long to find fault with her teaching but really they found no mistakes
[ organ - steel ]
I am glad I have learned of her meekness and I'm proud that my name's on the book
For I want to be one never fearing the face of my Saviour's true look
When he comes descending from heaven on the cloud as he writes in his word
I'll be joyfully carried to meet him on the wings of the great speckled bird
On the wings of the great speckled bird
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2.
LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARM
(Elisha A. Hoffman - Anthony J. Showalter - Wilbur Jones)
« © '29 Good News Broadcasting, BMI »
What a fellowship what a joy divine leaning on the everlasting arms
What a blessedness what a peace is mine leaning on the everlasting arms
Leaning leaning safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning leaning leaning on the everlasting arms
Oh how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way leaning on the everlasting arms
Oh how bright the path grows from day to day leaning on the everlasting arms
Leaning leaning...
[ piano ]
What have I to dread what have I to fear leaning on the everlasting arms
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near leaning on the everlasting arms
Leaning leaning...
Leaning leaning...
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3.
SOFTLY AND TENDERLY
(Will L. Thompson)
« © '49 Sacred Music Foundation, BMI »
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling calling for you and for me
See on the portals he's waiting and watching watching for you and for me
Come home (come home) come home ye who are weary come home
Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling calling oh sinner come home
Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading pleading for you and for me
Why should we linger and heed not his mercies mercies for you and for me
Come home come home...
[ guitar ]
Hope of the wonderful love he has promised promised for you and for me
Though we have sinn'd he has mercy and pardon pardon for you and for me
Come home come home...
Calling oh sinner come home
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4.
I'LL FLY AWAY
(Albert E. Brumley)
« © '32 Fly Away Music, BMI »
Some glad morning when this life is o'er I'll fly away
To a home on God's celestial shore I'll fly away
I'll fly away oh Glory I'll fly away (in the morning)
When I'll die hallelujah by and by I'll fly away
When the shadow of this life has gone I'll fly away
Like a bird from prison bars have flown I'll fly away
I'll fly away oh Glory...
Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away
To a land where joy shall never end I'll fly away
I'll fly away oh Glory...
I'll fly away oh Glory...
I'll fly away
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5.
WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS
(Joseph Scrivens - Charles Converse - Sid Feller)
« © '18 Redwood Music, BMI »
What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and grieves to bear
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer
Oh what peace we often forfeit of what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer
Have we trials and temptation is there trouble anywhere
We should never be discouraged take it to the Lord in prayer
Can we find up friend so faithful who will all our sorrow share
Jesus knows our every weakness take it to the Lord in prayer
[ organ ]
Are we weak and heavy laden cumbered with a load of care
Precious Saviour still our refuge take it to the Lord in prayer
Do Thy friends despise forsake Thee take it to the Lord in prayer
In his arms he'll take and shield Thee Thou wilt find a solace there
Thou wilt find a solace there
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6.
THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME
(Albert E. Brumley - Mary Reeves)
« © '46 Bridge Building Music, BMI »
This world is not my home I'm just passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh Lord you know I have no friend like you
If heaven's not my home and Lord what will I do
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
They're all expecting me and that's one thing I know
I fixed up with Jesus a long long time ago
I know he'll take me through although I'm weak and poor
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh Lord you know I have no friend like you...
[ guitar ]
I have a loving mother just up in Gloryland
And I don't expect to stop until I shake her hand
She's waiting now for me in heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh Lord you know I have no friend like you...
Just up in Gloryland we'll live eternaly
The saints on every hand are shouting victory
Then songs of sweetest praise drift back from heaven's shore
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh Lord you know I have no friend like you...
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7.
HE IS MY EVERYTHING
(Dallas Frazier)
« © '65 Husky Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
He is my reason for living he is my everything
I remember my days of darekness without sunshine or sight to lead my way
Then a whisper of his voice softly called me to the arms of my Maker to stay
He is my reason for living he is the king of all kings
I long to be his possession he is my everything
After the lightning and the thunder after the last bell has rung
I want to bow down before Jesus and hear him say well done my son
He is my reason for living...
I long to be his possession he is my everything
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8.
GATHERING FLOWERS FOR THE MASTER'S BOUQUET
(Marvin E. Baumgardner)
« © '49 Bridge Building Music, BMI »
Death is an angel sent down from above
Sent for the buds and the flowers we love
Truly 'tis so for in heaven's own way
Each soul is a flower in the Master's bouquet
Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet
Beautiful flowers that will never decay
Gathered by angels and carried away
Forever to bloom in the Master's bouquet
Loved ones are passing each day and each hour
Passing away as the life of a flower
But every bud and each blossom some day
Will bloom as the flowers in the Master's bouquet
Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet...
[ steel ]
Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet...
Forever to bloom in the Master's bouquet
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9.
THERE IS A FOUNTAIN
(William Cowper - Lowell Mason)
« © '59 Bridge Building Music, BMI »
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains
Lose all their guilty stains lose all their guilty stains
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains
When this poor lisping stammering tongue lies silent in the grave
Then in a nobler sweeter song I'll sing Thy power to save
I'll sing Thy power to save I'll sing Thy power to save
Then in a nobler sweeter song I'll sing Thy power to save
[ guitar ]
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day
And there may I though vile as he wash all my sins away
Wash all my sins away wash all my sins away
And there may I though vile as he wash all my sins away
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10.
WINGS OF A DOVE
(Bob Ferguson)
« © '59 Husky Music, BMI / Larrick Music, BMI »
On the wings of a snow white dove he sends his pure sweet love
A sign from above on the wings of a dove
When troubles surround us when evils come
The body grows weak the spirit grows numb
When these things beset us he doesn't forget us
He sends down his love on the wings of a dove
On the wings of a snow white dove...
When Noah had drifted on the flood many days
He searched for land in various ways
Troubles he had some but wasn't forgotten
He sent him his love on the wings of a dove
On the wings of a snow white dove...
On the wings of a snow white dove...
A sign from above on the wings of a dove
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11.
PRECIOUS MEMORIES
(J.B.F. Wright)
« © '25 Bridge Building Music, BMI »
Precious mem'ries unseen angels sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger ever near me and the sacred past unfolds
Precious mem'ries how they linger how they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight precious sacred scenes unfold
Precious father loving mother fly across the lonely years
And those old home scenes of my childhood in fond memory appear
Precious mem'ries how they linger...
[ piano ]
Precious mem'ries how they linger...
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