Willie Nelson - Family Bible

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there’s a family bible on the table
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its pages torn and hard to read
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but the family bible on the table
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will ever be my key to memo – ries

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at the end of day when work was over
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and when the evening meal was done
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dad would read to us from the family bible
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and we’d count our many blessings one by one

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i can see us sitting round the table
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when from the family bible dad would read
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and i can hear my mother softly singing
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rock of ages rock of ages cleft for me

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this old world of ours is full of trouble
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but this old world would also better be
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if we’d find more bibles on the tables
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and mothers singing rock of ages cleft for me

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i can see us sitting round the table
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when from the family bible dad would read
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and i can hear my mother softly singing
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rock of ages rock of ages cleft for me