My favorite version of 'SUPPERTIME' is by the great
Jimmie Davis, author of 'YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE!

SUPPERTIME
Recorded by Jimmie Davis
Words and music by Ira F. Stanphill

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

CHORUS
Come home, come home, it's Suppertime
The shadows lenghten fast
Come home, come home, it's Suppertime
We're going home at last.

(Spoken)
Some of the fondest memories of my childhood
Were woven around suppertime
When my mother used to call
From the back steps of the old home place
Come on home now, Jimmy, supertime
Ah! Gee, but I'd love to hear that once more
But you know, for me, time has woven
A realization of a truth
That's even more thrilling
And that's when the call commeth
From the portals of Glory
To come home, for it's suppertime
When all of God's children
Shall gather 'round the table
With the Lord, Himself
At the greatest suppertime of them all.

CHORUS

ADDITIONAL VERSES NOT ON THE JIMMIE DAVIS RECORDING:

Years later by 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.

CHORUS

In mem'ry I can see her standing yonder
And her familiar voice I hear once more
The banquet table's ready up in Heaven
It's suppertime upon that golden shore.

CHORUS