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Thread #56276   Message #878805
Posted By: Joe Offer
30-Jan-03 - 10:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Joy Comes in the Morning (gospel song)
Subject: ADDGODPOP: Joy Comes in the Morning
Hi, Mary - you'll find an online recording and lyrics here (click). The site says the background singer is the infamous Jimmy Swaggart. Can't say I like the song, but there it is. I have corrected the spelling of the lyrics posted on the site. I could't bring myself to post it the way it was. I found correct lyrics in Singspirations's Country & Western Gospel Hymnal, volume four. Looks like the Gaithers wrote it (click for their songbook).
-Joe Offer-

JOY COMES IN THE MORNING
(William J and Gloria Gaither, 1974)


If you've knelt beside the rubble of an aching, broken heart,
When the things you gave your life for fell apart,
You're not the first to be acquainted with sorrow, grief, or pain,
But the Master promised sunshine after rain.
CHORUS

To invest your seed of trust in God, in mountains you can't move,
You have risked your life on things you cannot prove,
But to give the things you can not keep for what you cannot lose,
Is the way to find the joy God has for you,
CHORUS

Larry Hinson wrote a song with the same title, but it's not this one.