Karaoke Track: Trouble In The Amen Corner by Porter Wagoner (Harris Studios) - Karaoke Nerds

IT WAS A STYLISH
CONGREGATION.
YOU COULD SEE
THEY'D BEEN AROUND.
AND THEY HAD THE
BIGGEST PIPE ORGAN
OF ANY CHURCH IN TOWN.

BUT OVER IN
THE AMEN CORNER
OF THIS CHURCH
SAT BROTHER IRA.
AND HE INSISTED
EVERY SUNDAY ON
SINGIN' IN THE CHOIR.

HIS VOICE WAS CRACKED
AND BROKEN.

AGE HAD TOUCHED
HIS VOCAL CHORDS.
AND HE'D GET BEHIND
AND MISS THE WORDS.

WELL THE CHOIR
STORMED AND BLUSTERED
BROTHER IRA
SANG T00 SLOW.
AND HE SANG THE TUNES
THEY USED A
HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

WELL AT LAST
THE STORM CLOUD BURST.
THE CHURCH WAS TOLD
IN VINE THAT BROTHER IRA
MUST STOP HIS SINGIN'
OR THE CHOIR WAS
GONNA RESIGN.

SO THE PASTOR
APPOINTED A COMMITTEE,
I THINK IT WAS
THREE 0R FOUR.

AND THEY GOT IN THEIR
BIG FINE CAR AND
DROVE UP TO IRA'S DOOR.

THEY FOUND THE CHOIR'S
GREAT TROUBLE SITTIN'
IN AN OLD ARM CHAIR.
AND THE SUMMER'S
GOLDEN SUNBEAMS
LAY UPON HIS
SNOW WHITE HAIR.

SAID YORK,

WE'RE HERE, DEAR BROTHER
WITH THE VESTRIES
APPROBATION
TO DISCUSS A LITTLE
MATTER THAT AFFECTS
THE CONGREGATION.

NOW WE DON'T WANT
NO MORE SINGIN' EXCEPT
WHAT WE'VE BOUGHT.
THE NEWEST SONGS
ARE ALL THE RAGE
THE OLD ONES
STAND FOR NAUGHT.

AND SO WE'VE DECIDED....
ARE YOU LISTENIN',
BROTHER IRA?
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO
STOP YOUR SINGIN'.
IT'S MESSIN' UP
THE CHOIR.

THE OLD MAN RAISED
HIS HEAD, A SIGN THAT
HE DID HEAR.
AND ON HIS CHEEK
THE THREE MEN
CAUGHT THE GLITTER
OF A TEAR.

HIS FEEBLE HANDS
PUSHED BACK THE LOCKS
AS WHITE AS SILKY SNOW

AND HE ANSWERED

THE COMMITTEE
IN A VOICE BOTH
SOFT AND LOW.

I'VE SUNG
THE SONGS OF DAVID
NEARLY EIGHTY YEARS,
SAID HE.
THEY'VE BEEN MY STAFF
AND COMFORT ALL ALONG
LIFE'S DREARY WAY.

I'M SORRYI DISTURBED
THE CHOIR. I GUESS I'M
DOIN' WRONG.

BUT WHEN MY HEART
IS FILLED WITH PRAISE,
I CAN'T KEEP BACK
A SONG.

YOU KNOW I WONDER
IF BEYOND THE TIDE THAT'S
BREAKING AT MY FEET.
IN THAT FAR OFF
HEAVENLY TEMPLE
WHERE MY MASTER,
I SHALL MEET.

WONDER IF WHEN I TRY
TO SING THE SONGS
OF GOD UP HIGHER.

RECKON THEY'LL
KICK ME OUT UP THERE
FOR SINGIN' IN
HEAVEN'S CHOIR?

A SILENCE FILLED THE
LITTLE ROOM. THE OLD MAN
BOWED HIS HEAD
THE COMMITTEE WENT ON
BACK TO TOWN BUT
BROTHER IRA
WAS DEAD.

0H THE CHOIR MISSED HIM
FOR A WHILE BUT
HE WAS SOON FORGOT.
AND A FEW CHURCH GOERS
WATCHED THE DOOR BUT
THE OLD MAN
ENTERED NOT.

FAR AWAY HIS VOICE
IS SWEET AND HE SINGS
HIS HEART'S DESIRES.
WHERE THERE ARE
NO CHURCH COMMITTEES
AND NO FASHIONABLE
CHOIRS .......

GRAPHICS CREATED
BY

HARRIS STUDIOS
2016

Title: Trouble In The Amen Corner
Artist: Porter Wagoner
Brand: Harris Studios
Code: VHG50-16
Genres: country gospel, nashville sound, classic country pop, christian country, traditional country, honky tonk