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Thread #33891   Message #859386
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
05-Jan-03 - 05:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: All the Good Times
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All the Good Times
The hymn we used to sing that has almost this tune, was, "Lord, I'm Coming Home." It's an invitational song, sung at the end of the service when the invitation is given to the congregation to come up the aisle and join the church.

I've wandered from the fold of God,
Now I'm coming home;
The paths of sin too long I've trod-
Lord, I'm coming home.

Cho:
Coming home, coming home,
Nevermore to roam;
Open now thine arms of love,
Lord, I'm coming home!

"All the Good Times" was probably the most popular song going amongst the folk crowd in 1947 when I first arrived in NYC. Now there WAS a lively scene then, believe it or not!