Iris Dement songs lyrics

Well, I looked up into heaven, I thought I'd solve life's mysteries. I observed the constellations for a clue to my destiny. But the rhyme of life...

Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by. It's so hard to make every note bend just right. You lay down the hours and leave not one trace, But a...

Oh, I hear that train a-coming, coming on 'round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time...

Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! that calls me from a world of care, and bids me to my Father's throne make all my wants, my wishes known....

I wrote my mother yesterday 'cause I had some things that I had to say and I know that when she reads them she's gonna cry But in the end I hope...

Joseph was an old man and an old man was he, and he has married Mary, the queen of Galilee, and he has married Mary, the queen of Galilee As...

Troublesome waters, much blacker than night, Are hiding from view, the harbour's bright light. Tossed on the turmoil of life's troubled sea, I...

It was a long time ago, I was a girl 'bout 12 years old on my back staring up into the dark summer sky when I said, "God, tomorrow I can't see but...

My father died a year ago today. The rooster started crowing when they carried Dad away. There beside my mother, in the living room, I stood, With...

What a fellowship, what a joy divine, Leaning on the everlasting arms; What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, Leaning on the everlasting arms....

Far away I've traveled, To stand once more alone. And hear my memories echo, Through these hills that I call home. As a child I roamed this...

There's a dark and a troubled side of life there's a bright and a sunny side too Though we meet with darkness and strife the sunny side we also...

When my mornin' comes around, no one else will be there so I won't have to worry about what I'm supposed to say and I alone will know that I...

God walks the dark hills The ways, the by ways He walks through the billows Of life's troubled sea He walks through the cold dark night The shadows...

The wheels of love turn around and around Keep on rolling till you've found the perfect partner, somebody just right to have and hold every day...

I know why you're lonely and I know why you're blue You're lonesome to see him and I long to see her too We're not in love with each other, we're...

I'm glad Jesus came glory to his name of what a friend is he He's so freely gave his own love to save from all the sins set free I've got that old...

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh Me got to go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh Son of a gun, gonna...

Precious child in my arms how I yearn in my heart to make it easier than it was for me but we all have our times and our stairs we must climb ...

She's got a phone in one hand, a hairbrush in the other and she says, "Life's too short to stay home and be a mother" She says she can have it all...