Sunday, April 27, 2008
Tribute Song about Tinney Chapel introduced today at Remnant Sunday School 04-27-08
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TINNEY’S CHAPEL
By Tommy Frank Thompson, baptized here at age 8 in 1958.
Tune along the lines of SING ME BACK HOME by Merle Haggard
SOUNDS OF CHILDREN LAUGHING, THEN THE CHILDREN SING A CAPELLA “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so, little ones to him belong, they are weak but he is strong”
KEY OF D, D A7 G
There’s a Chapel in the country, I was raised there as a child,
Every Sunday we’d put on our meetin’ clothes
My dad was always workin’, but my mama never missed
We’d load up that station wagon and off we’d go
Well I left that little chapel so many years ago,
And my life has been a winding, troubled road
But now the circle is unbroken, I’m back here once again
Up there in the choir singin’ with my friends
Well they call it Tinney’s Chapel, and it’s stood a hundred years
It’s a refuge where this sinner goes to pray
Now my brothers and my sister and my mama are all gone
But I know we’ll all meet up come Judgment Day.
Life was all so very simple, times were hard but never bad
Or maybe now that’s all that I recall
But this little country chapel is an anchor holding strong
In that church my troubled days are now long gone
Well they call it Tinney’s Chapel, and it’s stood a hundred years
It’s a refuge where this sinner goes to pray
And now the circle is unbroken, I’m back here once again
Up there in the choir singin’ with my friends
(c) Copyright, Tommy Frank Thompson.
