MOTHER'S BIBLE
(Don Reno)

Recorded by:
Paul Atkins; Crowe Brothers.


 
There's a book that Mother left me 
That grows sweeter every day
I have often read the pages 
Since my Mother passed away 
When but just a baby boy
I would sit upon her knee
Mother looked just like an angel
When she read this book to me  
 
Mother's bible, oh, how dear 
With the covers worn and old
Mother's bible, much more sweeter
Worth much more to me than gold
And she told me, yes she told me 
Just before she went to sleep
If I read it and believed it 
Jesus then my soul would keep 
 
Now my Mother's gone to heaven
And sometimes I feel so sad
Then I go get Mother's bible 
That she left for me and Dad
Through the years there may be changes
But one change there'll never be
It's that old and faded bible 
That my Mother left for me
 
Mother's bible, oh, how dear
With the covers worn and old 
Mother's bible, much more sweeter 
Worth much more to me than gold 
And she told me, yes she told me
Just before she went to sleep 
If I read it and believed it
Jesus then my soul would keep


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2006)