SUPPERTIME
Author(s): Eli Ferguson
Songbook: Love Songs Songbook
KeyWords: Parenting,

Many years ago in days of childhood
I used to play till evening shadows come,
Then winding down an old familiar pathway
I heard my mother call at set of sun:

First Chorus:
"Come home, come home,
It's suppertime;
The shadows lengthen fast."

One day beside her bedside I was kneeling,
And angel-wings were winnowing the air.
She heard the call for suppertime in Heaven
And now I know she's waiting for me There.

Second Chorus:
Come home, come home,
It's suppertime;
We're going home at last.

In visions now I see her standing yonder,
And her familiar voice I hear once more.
The banquet table's ready up in Heaven
It's suppertime upon the golden shore;

[Repeat First and Second Choruses]

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