Lyrics

Sweet Lullaby 5:13



Well, I was just a boy of nine
When we got we got the news
That Grandpa was dying and it was gonna be real soon
And, when Daddy came home late that night
and he told us he had died
And the last thing he whispered
was that he'd be in heaven tonight?


And He said Mama
Won?t you sing a melody a sweet lullaby
like when I was only three
and tuck me in real tight and I'll be alright
for I think that I'll be going to heaven tonight.


Ten years more and I went to war
in the fields of Vietnam
I was dug down in a bunker
My buddy lying in my arms
A sniper's gun had just rung out
He'd been shot real bad that day
And as he lay there dying
I swore I heard him say?


He said Daddy
Won?t you sing a melody a sweet lullaby
Like when you rocked me on your knee
And tuck me in real tight and I'll be alright
For I think that I'll be traveling to heaven tonight.



Well the years went by and I became
a Shepherd of the soul
I sat with the sick and dying
victims of life's tolls
There was one little girl who broke my heart
She told me that she knew
That Jesus and his angels
would be coming for her soon?

And I said Darling
Let me sing a melody a sweet lullaby
And I held her close to me
I tucked her in real tight and I turned out the light
And I thought that she would likely go to heaven that night.


Well Mamas and Daddies sing those melodies
Those sweet lullabies as you send them off to sleep
And tuck those babes in tight and they'll be alright
For each one has an angel looking down from heaven tonight
Yes each one has an angel looking down from heaven tonight.