Lyr Req: A Beautiful Life (William M. Golden)

Subject: A Beautiful Life
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 01:22 PM

I found the tune to this song, but the lyrics were not available. I know I can get them from a mudcatter. Thanks in advance! Penny

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Beautiful Life
From: Banjer
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 07:21 PM

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Subject: Lyr Add: A BEAUTIFUL LIFE (William M. Golden)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 12:18 AM

Lyrics copied from http://members.tripod.com/Synergy_2/lyrics/beautlif.html
(There is also a midi at that site.)

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
(Words & Music by William M. Golden, 1918)

Each day I'll do a golden deed,
By helping those who are in need.
My life on earth is but a span,
And so I'll do the best I can.

CHORUS: Life's evening sun is sinking low.
A few more days and I must go
To meet the deeds that I have done,
Where there will be no setting sun.

To be a child of God each day,
My light must shine along the way.
I'll sing His praise while ages roll
And strive to help some troubled soul. CHORUS

The only life that will endure
Is one that's kind and good and pure.
And so for God I'll take my stand.
Each day I'll lend a helping hand. CHORUS

I'll help someone in time of need,
And journey on with rapid speed.
I'll help the sick and poor and weak,
And words of kindness to them speak. CHORUS

While going down life's weary road,
I'll try to lift some traveler's load.
I'll try to turn the night to day,
Make flowers bloom along the way. CHORUS

[In every sample I have listened to, this song is sung in call-and-response fashion, e.g.
"Each day I'll do (each day I'll do) a golden deed (a golden deed),
By helping those (by helping those) who are in need (who are in need)... etc."

[Recorded by the Bass Mountain Boys, Bryan Bowers, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Country Gentlemen, Tennessee Ernie Ford, the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet, Kazuhiro Inaba, the Kentucky Colonels, Del McCoury, Bill Monroe, Jim Reeves, Tex Ritter, Red Smiley, the Stanley Brothers, the Statler Brothers, Carl Storey, and T. Texas Tyler.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Beautiful Life
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 02:11 AM

And by Doyle Lawson & the Quicksilver, Kim Richey, the Monroe Brothers, and the Pilgrim Jubilee Singers [as "Life's Evening Sun"]. The Vaughan Quartet version [mp3] is HERE.