Maybe that line I couldn't decipher is
"One day when my life was dark and drear"

-snip-

That's almost the same as the line given in GUEST,eric's post of 19 Oct 05 - 03:13 PM. And that line rhymes with the next line which I think I got right: "Jesus came and answered prayer". Although maybe that line is "Jesus came and He answered prayer".

I can definitely see some of the verses given in Guest eric's post and in other posts in this thread fitting in with the Angelic Singer's version of that song, and also with the Georgia Mass Choir's version.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the first part of the Georgia Mass Choir's rendition of this song [which isn't provided on YouTube as of this date] included more rhyming verses than the second part.