When I was a child, I spoke as a child Now I'm a grown woman but my thoughts are still wild I thought I'd seen London or maybe Paris but I'm starin' at cornfiel...

There'll be laughter even after you're gone I'll find reasons to face that empty dawn 'Cause I've memorised each line in your face, And not even death can ever ...

I've traveled 'round this country from shore to shining shore It really made me wonder the things I heard and saw I saw the weary farmer plowing sod and loam l...

I'm tired of this dirty old city entirely too much work and never enough play and I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks I think I'll walk off my steady job tod...

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, I'm born of his Spirit, washed in his blood Refrain: ...

Ridin' on the city of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday mornin' rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors, twenty-five sacks of mail Out ...

Standing barefoot on a cold wood floor, Looking out the window of my back door If it keeps on raining I think the whole damn house is gonna float away The alarm...

Twelve-hundred miles, it's length and breadth, That four-square city stands It's gem-set walls of Jasper shine, They're not made by human hands One-hundred mile...

Oh, I hear that train a-coming, coming on 'round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' o...

You say that you're born again Cleansed of your former sins You want me to say "I forgive and forget" But you've done too much to me Don't you be touching me, G...

God walks the dark hills The ways, the by ways He walks through the billows Of life's troubled sea He walks through the cold dark night The shadows of midnight ...

Goodbye little darling, we're parting Parting don't always mean goodbye Although we have to part You're always in my heart Goodbye little darling, goodbye Good...

Through your heart there runs a highway Where the traffic comes and goes And the old loves are replaced by the new I keep searching for the stop sign I know I'l...

Sometimes I feel discouraged And I think my works in vain I'm tempted oft(en) to murmur To grumble and complain But then I think of Jesus And all he's borne for...

Spoken introduction by Iris Dement: "No voice has inspired me more than my mother's She showed me that music is a pathway to higher ground" I'm pressing on the...

Riding east-bound freight train, stealing through the night He was just a lonesome hobo who was fighting for his life The sadness in his eyes revealed the tortu...

Well, I've heard 'em say there's one for everybody, And I just knew somehow that you'd be the one for me 'Cause making love with you's not just a hobby: No, it'...

In this world we have our trials Sometimes lonesome, sometimes blue But the hope of life eternal Makes all old hopes brand new And I don't want to get adjusted...

In this world we have our trials Sometimes lonesome, sometimes blue But the hope of life eternal Makes all old hopes brand new And I don't want to get adjusted...

When the train pulls in the station you'll be waiting at the track You're having troubles sleeping nights and you want me to come back That old train just rolls...

At my door the leaves are falling and a cold, wild wind soon will come Sweethearts walk by together and I still miss someone Well, I never got over those blue ...

We both know the reason why you've called So stop wasting time trying to soften up my fall I know you wanna sweeten up the taste But if you don't mind, I'll jus...

I'm out to try my hand at love again And I'll be picking differently than the way I picked back then To demand amore ain't such a sin So I'm out to try my hand ...

Steve: I didn't know you'd be in this place tonight Then again I thought you might Now I don't know what to do Does it show when my poor heart skips a beat Each...

I'm glad Jesus came glory to his name of what a friend is he He's so freely gave his own love to save from all the sins set free I've got that old time religion...

We both know the reason why you've called so stop wasting time trying to soften up my fall I know you wanna sweeten up the taste but if you don't mind, I'll jus...

John: She don't like her eggs all runny She thinks crossin' her legs is funny She looks down her nose at money She gets it on like the Easter Bunny She's my bab...

Last night before I went to sleep, My knees dropped to the floor I turned me eyes up to the sky, And I prayed: "Please help me, Lord "You know I've sowed my wil...

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh Me got to go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh Son of a gun, gonna have big fun on ...

It was a long time ago, I was a girl 'bout 12 years old on my back staring up into the dark summer sky when I said, "God, tomorrow I can't see but I'll stick cl...

There's a dark and a troubled side of life there's a bright and a sunny side too Though we meet with darkness and strife the sunny side we also may view Chorus...

*LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS What a fellowship of what a joy divine Leaning on the everlasting arms What a blessedness what a peace of mind Leaning on the ...

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done But no one knows for certa...

I know why you're lonely and I know why you're blue You're lonesome to see him and I long to see her too We're not in love with each other, we're in love with o...

I wrote my mother yesterday 'cause I had some things that I had to say and I know that when she reads them she's gonna cry But in the end I hope she sees that I...

Books are stacked on my table, I've got books filling my shelves Day and night I've been trying to unravel myself But I've been looking for answers that don't s...

Hey, look how far we've come, do we know who we are? Stranded on a mountain top trying to catch a falling star Here's to what we've left behind us, here's to wh...

She grew up plain and simple in a farming town Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoedowns She says the neighbors would come a...

Well, it got so hot last night I swear you couldn't hardly breathe Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol I sat on the porch without my shoes and watched th...

I'd walk for miles, cry and smile for my Mama and Daddy I want them, I want them to know, How I feel, my love is real for my Mama and Daddy I want them to know ...

My life, it don't count for nothing When I look at this world, I feel so small My life, it's only a season: A passing September that no one will recall But I g...

My father died a year ago today The rooster started crowing when they carried Dad away There beside my mother, in the living room, I stood, With my brothers and...

Well, I had me a wedding and a dress so white and a man put pretty little stars in my eyes Then I woke up one morning, he was gone Lord, he jumped a train to Sa...

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 Noah had drifted on the flood many days He searche...

And you know the sun's settin' fast, And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye, But hold on to your lover, 'Cause your...

My love stood under a walnut tree Over the garden wall She whispered and said she'd be true to me Over the garden wall She had beautiful eyes and beautiful hair...

No use crying, talking to a stranger, naming the sorrow you've seen Too many bad times, too many sad times Nobody knows what you mean Chorus: But if somehow yo...

When I first come to this country in Eighteen and Forty-nine I saw many fair lovers but I never saw mine I viewed it all around me, saw I was quite alone and me...

She's got a phone in one hand, a hairbrush in the other and she says, "Life's too short to stay home and be a mother" She says she can have it all 'cause that's...

Sweet forgiveness, that's what you give to me When you hold me close, And you say: "That's all over" You don't go looking back, You don't hold the cards to stac...

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, That calls me from a world of care, And bids me, at my Father's throne, make all my wants and wishes known! In seaso...

Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by It's so hard to make every note bend just right You lay down the hours and leave not one trace, But a tune for the danci...

There will be a happy meeting in Heaven, I know When we see the many loved ones we've known here below Gathered on that blessed hilltop with hearts all aglow Th...

I've been throwin' horseshoes over my left shoulder I spent most all my life searchin' for that four-leaf clover Yet you ran with me chasin' my rainbows I love ...

Joseph was an old man and an old man was he, and he has married Mary, the queen of Galilee, and he has married Mary, the queen of Galilee As Joseph and Mary wa...

Precious child in my arms how I yearn in my heart to make it easier than it was for me but we all have our times and our stairs we must clim there is one thing ...

I have good new to bring And that is why I sing, All my joys with you I will save Well I'm gonna take a trip On the old gospel ship And go sailing through the a...

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame and I love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners...

Well, I looked up into heaven, I thought I'd solve life's mysteries I observed the constellations for a clue to my destiny But the rhyme of life confounds me, t...

Come along my dear, the time's growin' near, We'll have to walk down where the field is overgrown Consumption's claimed his life and we dare not miss the sight,...

They tell me of a home far beyond the sky They tell me of a home far away They tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise O, they tell me of an unclouded day ...

A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night An Autumn leaf was scraping against my window like it was trying hard to get inside and th...

There's a wall in Washington And it's made of cold black granite They say 60,000 names are etched there in it In that wall in Washington A father, he traveled ...

There's a wall in Washington and it's made of cold black granite They say 60,000 names are etched there in it in that wall in Washington A father, he traveled ...

Far away I've traveled, To stand once more alone And hear my memories echo, Through these hills that I call home As a child I roamed this valley I watched the ...

I traveled high, I traveled low and there was no place I didn't go looking for this kind of happy with you I had a love, it wasn't right and I spent so many lon...

I went to church on Sunday, I swung my chariot low Reached up to kiss the deacon, he said "You'd better go" Trouble, I'm in trouble with him Trouble's where I'm...

I went to church on Sunday, I swung my chariot low Reached up to kiss the deacon, he said "You'd better go" Trouble, I'm in trouble with him Trouble's where I'm...

Troublesome waters, much blacker than night, Are hiding from view, the harbour's bright light Tossed on the turmoil of life's troubled sea, I cried to my Saviou...

I'm walkin' home tonight The streets are glowing 'neath the pale moonlight I look around, there's not a soul in sight and I'm walkin' home Once again I hear my ...

Living in the wasteland of the free We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines and their speech is growing increasingly unkind They say they are Ch...

I am a poor wayfarin' stranger Travelling through this world of woe And there's no sickness, toil or danger In that bright land to which I go I'm going there t...

If anyone could find the joy That true love brings a girl and boy We could, we could you and I If anyone could ever say Their true love was here to stay We cou...

The wheels of love turn around and around Keep on rolling till you've found the perfect partner, somebody just right to have and hold every day and every night ...

In a lonely room, waiting for the night to fall I hear your voice in every whippoorwill that calls and it takes me back to a better place and a sweeter time Whe...

Look at you, look at me My heart breaks as I read our sad story Never thought that I'd be, Here with you wishing I was free I never dreamed today would come, W...

When my mornin' comes around, no one else will be there so I won't have to worry about what I'm supposed to say and I alone will know that I climbed that great ...

To Canaan's land, I'm on my way where the soul of man never dies and my darkest nights will turn to day where the soul of man never dies And dear friend there ...

The snowflakes fall as winter comes and time just seems to fly Is it the loneliness in me that makes me want to cry? My heart is sad, like a mourning dove that'...

I will twine and will mingle my raven black hair With the roses so red and the lilies so fair And the myrtle so bright with an emerald hue The pale emanita and ...

Well, you told me that you wished that things had not, Turned out this way You never thought there'd come a time, When you would go away But you stayed right he...