Angels, Please Tell Mother
Authors: James Rowe • Composers: Curtis M. Johnson • Meter: 13.10.13.10. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1916
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1. O how my loving mother used to worry over me,
Because I did not trust her Savior’s love!
She wanted me to meet her beside the crystal sea,
That we might live together there above.
Refrain:
How happy she will be to know that I am free,
And that the golden life-crown I shall wear;
Her Savior hides my past,
I’m trusting Him at last,
So, angels, please tell mother I’ll be there.
2. How oft I saw her weeping, how oft I heard her pray
For me, her boy, in boyhood’s happy home;
And yet I followed pleasure along the downward way,
And seemed to love from her and God to roam.
3. I know that she is resting with glory on her brow,
I know that she is safe with Him above,
And O how much I lover her and her Redeemer now,
While resting in His tender arms of love.
4. I soon shall meet my mother in yonder happy home,
And than her for the pleas she made for me;
Along the shore eternal together we will roam
And praise our King beside the crystal sea.