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lyr req: Where Will You Spend Eternity?

30 Dec 08 - 09:06 PM (#2527944)
Subject: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: GUEST,Herman, monk

+ In days of old I used to listen to and sing a good deal of American folk music, and I might do so again in days to come.

In those days I knew a song with a refrain that went like this:

   Where would you spend eternity
   If death should call you today?
   Are you ready to go home?
   O where would you spend eternity?

Then it went:

   O my brother, if death should call today,
   Where would you spend eternity ...

And so on. But memory fails ... memorie ... fails, fails ...

I thought it was by the Blue Sky Boys, but appently it's not.

Can anyone post the lyrics to this song and tell me who recorded it?

Herman, monk


30 Dec 08 - 09:37 PM (#2527959)
Subject: RE: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: Melissa

maybe a Louvin Bros song?


30 Dec 08 - 09:46 PM (#2527967)
Subject: RE: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: GUEST

+ Thanks Melissa. I'll do a search for the name. It must have been on a vinyl I owned or had from the Berkeley Public Library, and I'm sure I'd recognized the name of the band, but I don't think I've ever heard of the Louvin Bros until now.

Thanks for your quik response! I just posted a few minutes ago.

H


30 Dec 08 - 10:11 PM (#2527979)
Subject: RE: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: Desert Dancer

Here it is in the "Cyber Hymnal": click here.

~ Becky in Tucson


30 Dec 08 - 10:25 PM (#2527986)
Subject: Lyr Req: WHAT WILL YOUR ANSWER BE (T S Teddlie)
From: Nathan in Texas

Not quite it, but your lines reminded me of this one we used to sing in the churches I grew up in.

"What Will Your Answer Be?"
by Tillit S. Teddlie, 1935

Someday you'll stand at the bar on high,
Someday your record you'll see;
Someday you'll answer the question of life,
What will your answer be?

Chorus:
What will it be? What will it be?
Where will you spend your eternity?
What will it be? Oh, what will it be?
What will your answer be?

Sadly you'll stand if you're unprepared
Trembling, you'll fall on your knee;
Facing the sentence of life or of death,
What will your sentence be?

Now is the time to prepare, my friend,
Make your soul spotless and free;
Washed in the blood of the Crucified One,
He will your answer be.


30 Dec 08 - 10:47 PM (#2527995)
Subject: RE: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: Melissa

It reminded me of "Are you afraid to die"..

Glad you found it, Becky!


31 Dec 08 - 10:24 PM (#2528784)
Subject: RE: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: GUEST

+ I'm afraid this is not the one, Becky.

H


31 Dec 08 - 10:29 PM (#2528788)
Subject: RE: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: Peace

Hope this is it.


16 May 17 - 12:45 AM (#3855356)
Subject: RE: Where Will You Spend Eternity?
From: GUEST,Jim Beaver

Perhaps it is the song recorded by Cecil Surratt and his West Virginia Ramblers on the Rich-R-Tone label in 1953. It is the flip side of "Bright Crystal Sea" on the 78 RPM record.

Jim