Family Bible

There's a family Bible on the table

It's pages are torn and hard to read

But the family Bible on the table

Will ever be my key to memories.



At the end of day when work was over

And when the evening chores were finallydone

Dad would read to us from the family Bible

And we'd count our many blessings one by one.



I can see us sittin' round the table

When from the family Bible dad would read

And I can hear my mother softly singing

Rock of ages, rock of ages cleft for me.



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This old world of ours is full of trouble

This old world would, oh, so better be

If we had more Bibles on the tables

And mothers singing rock of ages cleft for me.



I can see us sittin' round the table

When from the family Bible dad would read

I can hear my mother softly singing

Rock of ages, rock of ages cleft for me.



Rock of ages, rock of ages cleft for me...