WHERE WILL YOU BUILD
(Charlie Louvin / Ira Louvin)

The Louvin Brothers - 1956
The Whitstine Brothers - 1969
The Sullivan Family - 1986
Tim Surrett - 1997
Paul Williams & Cliff Waldron - 2002
Cherryholmes - 2003


Where will you build, friend, where will you build
On the sinking sand, on the rock, on the hill
Through the rain and storm will your building stand
It's sure to fall if you're building on the sand

Jesus spoke in parables that we might understand
Of the foolish man who built his house upon the sand
When the rain and storm came down and beat upon that house
Jesus said it fell and great was it's fall

Where will you build, friend, where will you build
On the sinking sand, on the rock, on the hill
Through the rain and storm will your building stand
It's sure to fall if you're building on the sand

The Jesus teaching his Disciples spoke of the man
The wise man that built his house upon the solid rock
When the rain and storm came down and beat upon that house
Jesus tells this sinless world, that house fell not

Where will you build, friend, where will you build
On the sinking sand, on the rock, on the hill
Through the rain and storm will your building stand
It's sure to fall if you're building on the sand

Where will you build, friend, where will you build
On the sinking sand, on the rock, on the hill
Through the rain and storm will your building stand
It's sure to fall if you're building on the sand


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2005)