Album Name

Evergreen Christmas Hits: All-star X-mas Hit Series

Artist

Pat Boone

Genre

POP

Release Date

2020.11.12

Release Agency

워너뮤직

Steal away steal away
steal away to Jesus
Steal away steal away home
I ain't got long to stay here
I was walkin' in Savannah
past a church decayed and dim
And there slowly through the window
came a plaintive funeral hymn
A sympathy awakened
and a wonder quickly grew
Till I found myself environed in
a little Negro pew
Down front sat a young couple
nearly wild
On the altar was a coffin
in the coffin was a child
Rose a sad old Negro preacher
at a little wooden desk
With a manner grandly awkward
and a countenance grotesque
And he said
Now don't be weepin'
for this pretty bit of clay
For the little boy who lived there
has done gone and run away
And he's doin' very finely
and he appreciates your love
But his sure nuff Father want
him in the large house above
Now He didn't give you that baby
for a hundred thousand miles
He just think you need some sunshine
and He lent him for awhile
And He let you love and keep him
'till your hearts were bigger grown
And those silver tears you're sheddin'
are just interest on the loan
So my poor dejected mourners
let your hearts with Jesus rest
And don't go criticizin'
the one that knows the best
He gave us many comforts
He has the right to take away
To the Lord be praise and glory
now and ever let us pray
My Lord calls me
He calls me by the thunder
The trumpet sounds
Within my soul
I ain't got long to stay here
I'm gonna steal away home