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Thread #105855   Message #2509053
Posted By: Azizi
05-Dec-08 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: Religious Songs That Speak To You
Subject: RE: Religious Songs That Speak To You
Here are the words to "A Building Not Made By Hand" that were posted in the comment section of that video by ShondaGospelDiva:

Lord keep me day by day
In a pure & perfect way
I want to live, I want to live on
In a building not made by hand

I'm just a stranger here
Traveling through this barren land
One thing I know,I have a building somewhere Lord, a building not made by hand

Lord keep my body strong
So that I may do no wrong
Give me grace to run this Christian race Lord, in a building not made by hand.

-snip-

I see several references to this song on Google, but no indication of who wrote it, and I haven't found any other "complete" example of the words. I wrote the word "complete" in quotation marks because I'm guessing though I don't know for sure that this could be an open ended zipper song with different verses like "Lord keep my heart strong, or Lord keep my mind strong, etc" in addition to "Lord keep my body strong"...



Also, from reading the comments, it appears that this song was sung at a special program that featured a number of well known gospel singer. The organist in the video was soul musician Billy Preston.