LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING
(Phillip Bliss 1871)

as recorded by The Andrews Sisters
with Victor Young & his Orchestra 1951


Brightly beams our Father's mercy
>From His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore

Let the lower lights be burning,
Send the gleam across the wave,
Some poor fainting struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save!

Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing
For the lights along the shore.

Let the lower lights be burning,
Send the gleam across the wave,
Some poor fainting struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save!

Let the lower lights be burning,
Send the gleam across the wave,
Some poor fainting struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save!


as recorded by Gale Storm 1959

Let the lower lights be burning,
Send the gleam across the wave,
Some poor fainting struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save!

Brightly beams our Father's mercy
>From His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore

Let the lower lights be burning,
Send the gleam across the wave,
Some poor fainting struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save!

Trim your feeble lamp, my brother,
Some poor seaman, tempest-tossed,
Trying now to make the harbour,
In the darkness may be lost.

Let the lower lights be burning,
Send the gleam across the wave,
Some poor fainting struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2016)