Follow The Light
LEAVING FOR HOME
ONE OF THE DAYS YOU'LL COME LOOKING FOR ME BUT I WILL BE GONE,
I WILL HAVE BEEN RAPTURED TO HEAVEN AND MY NEW HOME.
I WILL HAVE LEFT THIS EARTH DOWN HERE FOR EVER MORE,
TO MEET MY SAVIOUR UP THERE ON HEAVEN’S BRIGHT SHORE.
SO ONE DAY IF YOU COME LOOKING FOR ME AND NOT FIND ME AT HOME,
YOU WILL INQUIRE ABOUT ME, BUT FROM DOWN HERE I WILL BE FOREVER GONE.
ALL THE TRINKETS AND MUNDANE THINGS OF THIS LIFE WILL BE LEFT BEHIND,
I WON'T NEED THEM UP THERE BECAUSE TRUE RICHES IN MY MANSION I'LL FIND.
THIS COTTAGE I'VE LIVED IN BELOW, I WILL NEED NO MORE,
I HAVE A BRAND NEW MANSION PREPARED FOR ME ON HEAVEN'S SHORE.
I WILL HAVE A BRAND NEW BODY, FROM SIN AND DEATH AND PAIN,
AND ALL THE JOYS OF HEAVEN WILL I ENTER IN AND MY SOUL WILL GAIN.
I AM LONGING TO GO HOME TO BE WITH THE LORD WHEN HE CALLS FOR ME,
EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR EVER HEARD WHAT WONDER THAT ALL WILL BE.
I'M MUST PASSING THROUGH THIS LOW GROUND OF SIN AND SORROW AND SHAME,
FOR SOON I AM LEAVING HERE BECAUSE OF THE POWER OF JESUS' S HOLY NAME.
Written by Newell C. McMahan
2-2-2003
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