We…will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Words & Music: George C. Rumley, in The Pilot (Lenoir, North Carolina: Teachers’ Music Publishing, 1914), number 6 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Rumley (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
We’ve loved ones just over the turbulent tide,
On Heaven’s bright, beautiful shore;
In mansions of rapture they’ll ever abide,
And Jesus, our Savior, adore.
Refrain
They’re waiting and watching for me,
In mansions just over the sea;
With Christ and the ransomed forever to be,
My loved ones are waiting for me.
They’ve passed from this vale to a land of delight,
The beauties of Heaven to see;
Where cometh no night, and our Lord is the light,
My loved ones are waiting for me.
Refrain
Prepare us, dear Savior, to meet them up there,
When we to life’s closing shall come;
We fain would escape an eternal despair,
And share in Thy glorious home.
Refrain