Supper Time (Tremolo)

, Ira Stanphill

for the diatonic version see my "Supper Time" tab


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   many years a-go in days of child-hood, I used 
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to play till evening shadows come; then winding 
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down an old familiar pathway, I heard my mother  
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call at set of sun. 

chorus 
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come home, come home, its supper time the  
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shadows lengthen fast; come home, come home, its 
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supper time we're going home at last. 

verse 2:
one day beside her bedside I was kneeling, and angel wings were
winnowing the air; she heard the call for suppertime in heaven, and
now I know she's waiting for me there. 

chorus 

verse 3:
In visions now I see her standing yonder, and her familiar voice I
hear once more; the banquet table's ready up in heaven, its supper
time
upon the golden shore. 

chorus