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Text: | The Prodigal Child |
Author: | E. C. A. |
Tune: | [O, prodigal, come, I am waiting] |
Composer: | E. C. Avis |
1 O, prodigal, come, I am waiting,
Why tarry on mountains so bare?
Why perish with cold and with hunger?
There's bread enough yet and to spare.
Refrain:
Come home, Come home,
O prodigal child, come home,
And squander thy substance no longer;
O prodigal child, come home.
2 O, prodigal, come, I am waiting,
The Savior said sweetly and low;
Thy sins tho' they be red as scarlet,
I'll make them as white as the snow. [Refrain]
3 O, prodigal, come, I am waiting,
From pleasures of sin turn away;
Make haste and come back to thy Father,
Thy soul may be lost in delay! [Refrain]
4 O, prodigal, come, I am waiting,
Eternity now draweth nigh;
Return and believe on the Savior,
And thou shalt have treasures on high. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O, prodigal, come, I am waiting |
Title: | The Prodigal Child |
Author: | E. C. A. |
Refrain First Line: | Come home, Come home |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1890 |
Copyright: | Copyright, 1887, by E. C. Avis. By per. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [O, prodigal, come, I am waiting] |
Composer: | E. C. Avis |
Incipit: | 53212 16511 32165 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Copyright, 1887, by E. C. Avis. By per. |