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Thread #242   Message #842434
Posted By: Louie Roy
06-Dec-02 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old Village Choir / Lamp Lighting Time
Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN IT'S LAMP LIGHTING TIME IN THE VALLE
WHEN IT'S LAMP LIGHTING TIME IN THE VALLEY
The info I have on this tune is as follows
It was written and recorded by Curt Poulton & Herald Goodman in 1933

There's a lamp shining bright in a cabin
In the window it is shining for me
And I know that my mother is praying
For the boy she is longing to see.

CHORUS: When it's lamp lighting time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home
I can see that old lamp in the window
It will guide me wherever I roam.

In the lamp light each night I can see her
As she rocks in her chair to and fro
Though she prays that I'll come back to see her
Still I know that I never can go. CHORUS

She lights up the lamp and sits waiting
For she knows not the crime I have done
But I'll change all my ways and I'll meet her
Up in heaven when life's race is run. CHORUS