The Family Circle

Memory's of my childhood days I recall them now and then.
When at home with all the family there.
Now the circle has been broken it's not the same anymore.

But up there we'll meet again on Heavens Shore.
I wonder if the family circle will be together once again.
Over there on Heavens shining shore.
There no more to separate we'll sing around the throne.
I wonder if the family circle will all be home.

Will daddy be there waiting when I cross the chilly tide?
Will mother be there sitting by his side?
I pray the family circle will be present by and by.
In a land where the soul shall never die.

I wonder if the family circle will be together once again.
Over there on Heavens shining shore.
There no more to separate we'll sing around the throne.
I wonder if the family circle will all be home.
Yes I wonder if the family circle will all be home

Are all the Children in?

When I am alone, I often think of an old house on the hill.
Of a big yard hedged in Roses. Where we ran and played at will.
And when the night time brought us home, hushing our merry din.
Mother would look around and ask "Are all the Children in"?

Well it's been a many year now, and the old house on the hill.
No longer has my mother care, and the yard is still, so still.
But if I listen I can hear it all, no matter how long it's been.
I seem to hear my mother ask "Are all the Children in"?

An I wonder when the curtain falls, on that last earthly day.
When we say good-by to all of this, to our pain. and work. and play.
When we step across the river, where mother so long has been.
Will we hear her ask a final time, Are all the Children in.
I come.

As sung by Johnny Cash.
"Are All The Children In"
(Craig Starret) « © '59 »