Just a Little While

Soon this life will all be over,

And our pilgrimage will end.

Soon we'll take our heav’nly journey,

Be at home again with friends

Heaven's gates are standing open

Waiting for our entrance there

Some sweet day we're going over

All the beauties there to share.

CHORUS:

Just a Little while to stay here

Just a little while to wait

Just a little while to labor

In the path that’s always straight

Just a little more of trouble

In this low and sinful state

Then we’ll enter Heaven’s portals,

Sweeping thru the pearly gates.

Soon we’ll see the light of morning

Then the new day will begin

Soon we’ll hear the Father calling,

“Come my children, enter in.”

Then we’ll hear a choir of angels

Singing out the vict’ry song,

All our troubles will be ended

And we’ll live with heaven’s throng

Soon we’ll meet again our loved ones

And we’ll take them by the hand,

Soon we’ll press them to our bosom

Over in the promised land;

Then we’ll be at home forever,

Thru-out all eternity,

What a blessed, blessed morning

That eternal morn shall be.

~E.M. Bartlett 1921