The Funeral Lyrics - The Lost Concerts - Hank Williams

I was walking in Savannah past a church, decayed and dim 

When slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn 

My sympathy awakened and a wonder quickly grew 

'Til I found myself environed in a little colored pew 

Out front a colored couple sat in sorrow nearly wild 

On the altar was a casket and in the casket was a child 

I could picture him while living, curly hair protruding lips 

I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried southern trips 

Then rose a sad, old colored preacher from his little wooden desk 

With a manner sort of awkward and countenance grotesque 

The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face 

Showed the wisdom and the ignorance of a crushed, undying race 

Related 

Songs You Love If You Love Nerds 

NEW SONG: Chris Lane - 'Big, Big Plans' (Video for Lauren) - LYRICS 

Lil Nas X - 'Old Town Road' ft. Billy Ray Cyrus - LYRICS 

And he said, "Now don't be weepin' for this pretty bit of clay 

For the little boy who lived there has done gone and run away 

He was doing very finely and he 'ppreciates your love 

But his sho nough father wanted him in the big house up above 

The Lord didn't give you that baby, by no hundred thousand miles 

He just think you need some sunshine and he lent it for a while 

And he let you keep and love him 'til your hearts were bigger grown 

And these silver tears you're shedding now, are just interest on the loan 

Just think my poor dear mourners creeping long on sorrow? s way 

What a blessed picnic this here baby got today 

Your good fathers and good mothers crowd the little fella round 

In the angels 'tender garden of the big plantation ground 

And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he view 

But a tear came and he whispered, "I want my parents too" 

Then the angel's chief musicians teach that little boy a song 

Says if only they be faithful, they'll soon be comin' 'long 

Photos 

And so my poor dear mourners, let your hearts with Jesus rest 

And don't go to criticizn' the one what knows the best 

He has give us many comforts He's got the right to take away 

To the Lord be praised in glory, now and ever, let us pray