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Thread #36066   Message #495941
Posted By: Nathan in Texas
01-Jul-01 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: several Old Gospel songs
Subject: Lyr Add: IF THE LIGHT HAS GONE OUT (C J Williams)
Here's another one.

IF THE LIGHT HAS GONE OUT

by Curtis J. Williams, 1917

When the sun of your life has gone down,
And the clouds in the west turn to gold, (turn to gold,)
Endless night then to you will have come,
If the light has gone out in your soul.

Chorus:
O just think how in death you will feel, (you will feel,)
With the light growing dim in your soul; (in your soul;)
O how lonely 'twill be! O how still! (how still!)
When the light has gone out in your soul.

When you come to the end of the way,
And life's story for you has been told, (has been told,)
O how sad all to you will appear,
If the light has gone out in your soul.

When before judgment's bar you shall stand,
And the deeds that have here had control, (had control,) Good and evil appear, O what then?
If the light has gone out in your soul.

Source: "Songs We Sing Complete" Jacob A. Filber, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1954