Gospel News                 Ted DeMille/Rick Lang

Did you read the morning paper

It comes here everyday

It'll help you find salvation

As you travel life's highway

It's the teachings of the prophets

I know it must be true

It's all here in black and white

In the pages of the gospel news

       Page one (read a little gospel story)

       Page two (learn about a place called glory)

       Page three read it and see

       In the pages of the gospel news

You can use it for a road map

A compass for your soul

When you're stranded at the crossroads

And don't know which way to go

Just head down to the newsstand

There ain't no time to lose

And read the next edition

Of the daily gospel news

       Page four (read about the resurrection)

       Page five   (leading to your own redemption)

       Page six how to get your business fixed

In the pages of the gospel news

Page seven (read how you can live again)

Page eight (cleanse your soul of all sin)

Page nine brother come and get in line

For a copy of the gospel news

He's Waiting For You            DeMille/ Huntington

Chorus:    Go down to the water and give yourself over

              The captain is sending his heavenly crew

              They'll show you the way on that glorious day

              Jesus is ready He's waiting for you

There's a river that's rollin' it runs by your door

And the river will take you to a far-away shore

Where the angels are waiting to welcome you there

In the land of forgiveness you never need fear

The great ship is leaving with a touch of his hand

The captain will take you to the bright Promised Land

Your crossing is guided by a beautiful dove

And soon you'll be anchored in the harbor of love

You'll awake in the morning your journey is done

You'll walk in the light of a beautiful sun

And they'll be no more sorrow no heartache or woe

Jesus is waiting are you ready to go?

Indian Summer      Ted DeMille/Simon Huntington

On a rocky shore high above the sand

near an emerald sea and an old pine stand

on a bit of ground Daddy worked to clear

summer's hanging on a little while this year

Chorus:    It's an Indian Summer you can feel the sun

              sittings' on the porch when the work is done

              I can smell a little supper feel a cooling breeze

              It's the winter wind waiting in the tall pine trees

I got a little more done than I thought I might

And if the weather holds it'll be all right

'Cause the winter is long and the time is near

but summer's hanging on a little while this year

In the darkest hour of the winter chill

I remember the call of the whippoorwill

On the evening breeze her song I hear

And summer's hanging on a little while this year

Let A Little Heaven In Your Soul          DeMille/ Huntington

Chorus:    Hold on a little tighter

              Stand a little closer

              Get a little stronger before you go

Take a little longer

Try a little harder

Let a little heaven in your soul

If you lie awake at night

And you can't tell wrong from right

If you're standing at the crossroads

With your troubles in your hand

If you fear you've lost your way

At the ending of the day

If you feel your life is more than you can stand (Chorus)

Do you feel love's passed you by

Do you walk alone and cry

Has your life become a hard and heavy

Cross for you to bear

Are your worries closing in

Is your future looking dim

Are you broken down and driven by despair (Chorus)

Long Stretch of Highway              Ted DeMille/Rick Lang

I rolled in early from a week on the road

I thought I'd surprise you so I never called

When I pulled in the driveway something didn't seem right

I saw the car of a stranger next to yours in the night

I looked in the window I heard soft music play

You were standing together in a loving embrace

My body was shaking I fell to my knees

There's a long stretch of highway between you and me

I'll follow this highway as long as it goes

Just where I'll wind up God only knows

And the tears in my eyes make it so hard to see

There's a long stretch of highway between you and me

I'm driving and thinking but I can't understand

How you could take comfort with some other man

But it don't really matter what's done is done

I'll just cut my loses and keep moving on

I'm hugging the shoulder of this long lonesome road

Just where I'll wind up nobody knows

These tears in my eyes make it so hard to see

There's a long stretch of highway between you and me

There's a long stretch of highway between you and me

     Low Down             DeMille/ Lange

Chorus:        Low down low down you're makin' me blue

              Checkin' up on you baby I got the goods on you

              We'll I had it in mind to forget about the past

              But the low down is our love will never last

Well you tell me one thing then you go and do another

One little white lie after the other

I got friends out there who still care about me

They opened up my eyes and help me to see

There's talk on the street and it's all about you

It hurts me to think what their sayin' is true

They say you're seein' someone else

And you're just stringin' me along

And I wonder how long it's been goin' on

Midnight Train      Ted DeMille/Simon Huntington

Chorus:    Midnight Train rollin' down the track

              Took you away gonna bring you back

              Midnight train rollin' down the line

              Comin' back to Maine up from Caroline

Those were the best years I ever had

You took my heart you took it bad

North Carolina she called your name

And you went away on the midnight train

You know I tried to understand

You were my darlin' I was your man

I know you wanted me to explain

But you went away on the midnight train

I got your letter you wrote to say

You were comin' home you been too long away

Your coming home I call your name

When I hear the sound of the midnight train

When the Lupines Line the Lane       Ted DeMille/Rick Lang

There's a little weathered cottage

On a hillside by the sea

Sometimes I go back there in my dreams

Where the fields of purple flowers

Blossom in the spring

I can almost see them

Dancing in the breeze

Chorus:   When the lupines line the lane

              I'll be comin' back again

              To rest my weary feet back on that sandy soil

              Where the flowers grow so tall

              Around the old rock wall

              When the lupines line the lane

              I'm comin' home

I miss that white haired lady

Who once held me on her knee

How I long to hear her voice again

And I'd walk right beside her

As she'd toss those tiny seeds

And watch them floating gently on the wind

I still recall the last words that she said to me

I know I'll carry with me to my grave

And just like her I'm comin' back to live down by the sea

And make the world more beautiful some day

The Carpenter's Prayer       Eddie Carr, of Southern Junction band

He stood at the threshold of heaven on high

A carpenter's hammer and a saw at his side

The clothes on his shoulders were threadbare and worn

And his old leather apron was empty and torn

As he entered the gates of the great evermore

His eyes filled with tears as he looked to the door

But there at the mansion so perfect and right

Stood the Great Master Builder in his glorious light

And the Lord said, "You've come to my home up above

Built on the foundation of heavenly love

This hall of devotion is endless and wide

And it's sheltered eternal by an unclouded sky."

The carpenter bowed to the Great Master's call

And laid to the side his old hammer and saw

He welled with emotions no words he could say

So he fell to his knees and he humbly prayed

"Oh Great Master Builder of heaven and earth

I'm just an old craftsman of no mortal worth

Your beautiful mansion so perfect and true

What work would you have an old carpenter do?"

And the Lord said "You've served me through all of your years

Your faith has endured all the trials and tears

You sheltered the homeless with the gifts of your trade

And you've honored the Savior in all that you've made.

Now rise up before me and come take my hand

I'll show you my promise of a glorious land

Lay down your old apron for your labors are through

Come home to this mansion that I've built here for you."