Glory Hallellujah How They'll Sing

Up at five and done with the chores, the family piles in the pickup

Meetin' at the church house all the folk's from miles around

And packed between mama and daddy and all of the kids is a bushel basket

Heading for an all day country singing and dinner on the ground

Where they'll sing, glory hallelujah how they'll sing

Ladies dab their throats and brows with hand embroidered linen

Cool their dampened feedsack bodices with cardboard fans

Fans that advertize on one side Lanie's funeral parlor

While Jesus on the other side out stretches nail-scarred hands

And they sing, glory hallelujah how they'll sing

Do me so, la so me do

Do re me, fa ti do

Do me so, la so me do

Do re me, fa ti do

A Deacon in a white nylon short sleeve shirt leads the singing

A book of matches in his pocket, and a ball point pen

Inside the cover of the matches is the Deacons name and address

Enroll him in a course thats offered to outstanding men

And he sings, glory hallelujah how he'll sing

And he sings, glory hallelujah how he'll sing

Now lets turn to page three forty in our Broadman hymnals

A pinned roll banded hand prepares to strike the opening chord

A small boy whispers to his mama, do natives* go to heaven?

And they lift their voices to the sky, sing praises to the lord

And they'll sing, glory hallelujah how they'll sing

And they'll sing, oh glory hallelujah how they'll sing

And they'll sing, glory hallelujah how they'll sing