CALLED TO THE FOREIGN FIELD
As sung by Alfred Karnes on Yazoo 2013, The Music of Kentucky.

In the foreign heathen country where the people know not God,
I am going there to preach his precious word.
Where they bow to worship idols, I am going there to stay,
Where I'll labor in the vineyard of the Lord.

CHORUS: I'll soon be with my loved ones in my happy heavenly home.
Even now the thought my soul with rapture thrills.
So goodbye, my friends and brethren, for the time has come to go.
I must leave you on the dear old battlefield.

I am called to bear a message to the heathen far away,
And for years over there a stranger I may roam,
Just to tell them of a Savior, one who died to save them all.
That's the reason why I leave my native home. CHORUS

Many days I'll climb the hillside in sunshine and the rain.
Many days I'll be in hunger and in thirst,
Just to tell them that our Lord is coming back to earth again
With his gifts and blessings all as at the first. CHORUS

I will stand the trials and hardships just to tell them precious truths
That the gospel of our Savior doth contain,
And if they will but obey them and be faithful til our end,
Up in heaven we will meet you all again. CHORUS

We'll not all be foreign laborers but the time will soon arrive
When our mission we have faithfully fulfilled,
When our message is delivered, and 'tis said of us, "Well done."
In triumph we'll leave the dear old battlefield. CHORUS