Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Steal Away , by - Merle Haggard. Release date: 07.11.1971
Song language: English
Steal Away |
| Steal away, steal away |
| Steal away to Jesus |
| Steal away, steal away home |
| I ain’t got long to stay here |
| I was walkin' in Savannah, passed the church decayed and dimed |
| When there’s slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn |
| And a sympathy awakened an' a wonder quickly grew |
| Till I found myself seat in a little negro pew |
| Out at front a young couple sat in sorrow, nearly wild |
| And on the altar was a coffin and in the coffin lay a child |
| Rows of sad old negro preacher at his little wooden desk |
| With a manner grandly awkward with the countless grotesque |
| And he said now don’t be weepin' for this little bit of clay |
| For the little boy who lived there he done gone and run away |
| He’s was doin' very finely and he appreciated your love |
| But it’s sure enough father want him in the large house up above |
| Now he didn’t give you that baby by a hundred thousand miles |
| He just think you need some sunshine and he lend it for awhile |
| He let you keep and love it till your hearts were bigger grown |
| And these silver tears you have shed that’s just interest on the loan |
| So my poor dejected mourners let your hearts with Jesus rest |
| And don’t go criticizein' no one the one that knows the best |
| He gives us many comforts he’s ever right to take away |
| To the Lord be praised in glory now and ever, let us pray |
| My Lord calls me, He calls me by the thunder |
| The trumpet sounds within my soul |
| I ain’t got long to stay here |