Let The Lower Lights Be Burning

by Johnny Cash

From the album: My Mother's Hymn Book

Track 9 of 15 on My Mother's Hymn Book (2004).

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Lyrics for Let The Lower Lights Be Burning

Brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore But to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave Some poor fainting struggling seaman, you may rescue you may save Dark the night of sin has settled loud the angry billows roar Eager eyes are watching longing for the lights along the shore Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave Some poor fainting struggling seaman, you may rescue you may save Trim your feeble lamp my brother, some poor sailor tempest tossed Trying now to make the harbor in the darkness may be lost Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave Some poor fainting struggling seaman, you may rescue you may save

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More from My Mother's Hymn Book

  1. Where We'll Never Grow Old
  2. I Shall Not Be Moved
  3. I Am A Pilgrim
  4. Do Lord
  5. When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
  6. If We Never Meet Again This Side Of Heaven
  7. I'll Fly Away
  8. Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies
  9. Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
  10. When He Reached Down
  11. In The Sweet By And By
  12. I'm Bound For The Promised Land
  13. In The Garden
  14. Softly And Tenderly
  15. Just As I Am