And here is the version I made for St. Paul's Episcopal's Saturday Night Service, Wellsboro PA.~Susan
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LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING
Multiple versions edited by Susan O. Hinton
Brightly beams our Father's mercy
From His lighthouse evermore.
But to us He gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.
REFRAIN:
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling sailor
You may rescue, you may save.
Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother,
Some poor sailor tempest-tossed,
Trying now to make safe harbor,
In the fogbank may be lost.
Let your lights shine bright my sister,
There are many lost tonight.
Trying now to reach a mooring,
You may save them with your light.
CHORDS:
Brightly (G)beams our Father's (C)mercy
From His (A, A7)lighthouse ever- (D,D7)more.
But to (G)us He gives the (C)keeping
Of the (G)lights a- (D7)long the (G)shore (G7).
REFRAIN:
Let the (C)lower lights be (G)burning!
Send a (A, A7)gleam across the (D, D7)wave!
Some poor (G)fainting, struggling (C)sailor
You may (G)rescue, (D7)you may (G)save (G7).
Tag: G, D7, GSH