Tonart: F major
Verse 1
G
C
I was walking in Savannah past
G
a church, decayed and dim
Em
G
When slowly through the window came a
D
plaintive funeral hymn
My sympathy awakened and a wonder
quickly grew
G
'Til I found myself environed
in a little colored pew
C
Out front a colored
Verse 2
couple sat
in sorrow nearly wild
G
On the altar was a casket and
D
in the casket was a child
C
I could picture him while living,
G
curly hair protruding lips
C
I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried
southern trips
Verse 3
Then rose a sad,
G
old colored preacher from his little wooden desk
With a manner sort of awkward
C
and countenance grotesque
The simplicity and shrewdness
Cm
G
in his Ethiopian face
C
D
Showed the wisdom and the ignorance of a crushed,
undying race
G
Verse 4
And he said, "Now don't be weepin'
for this pretty bit of clay
Cm
For the little boy who lived there has
C
done gone and run away
G
He was doing very finely and he
D
'ppreciates your love
Am
G
But his sho nough father wanted him in the
big house up above
Verse 5
G
The Lord didn't give you that baby, by no hundred thousand
miles
C
He just think you need some sunshine
and he lent it for a while
G
And he let you keep and love him 'til
your hearts were bigger grown
D
And these silver tears you're shedding
now, are just interest on the loan
Em
G
Just think my poor dear mourners creeping long on sorrow?s
Verse 6
way
C
Cm
What a blessed picnic this
C
here baby got today
G
Your good fathers and good
D
mothers crowd the little fella round
In the angels 'tender garden of
G
the big plantation ground
C
And his eyes they brightly
Verse 7
sparkle
at the pretty things he view
G
But a tear came and he whispered,
"I want my parents too"
C
Then the angel's chief musicians
teach that little boy a song
G
Says if only they be faithful, they'll
soon be comin' 'long
D
G
And so my poor dear mourners,
Verse 8
let your hearts with Jesus rest
And don't go to criticizn' the
C
one what knows the best
G
He has give us many comforts He's
got the right to take away
D
To the Lord be praised in glory,
C
G
C
G
now and ever, let us pray
D
G
C
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