Misc Originals – Bear Murray - Gentle White-Haired Man (Guitar)

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In my mind there's been a stranger with hair of solid white.

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As a child with frieghtful dreams he often calmed my nights.

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And as a man facing choices that could surely mean my life

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More than once he's guided me with his wisdom and his light.

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He was born just before the civil war and he led a simple life.

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He fathered eleven children before he widowed his third wife

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And he was gone before I was born and I never knew this man

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But I know my life is guided by this gentle white-haired man

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Now in this world we'll all agree there's more than meets the eye

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Some believe we're protected by angels from on high.

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I may never come to know or fully understand

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Why my life is guided by this gentle white-haired man,

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But I know my life is guided by this gentle white-haired man.

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Just the other day I saw his kind old loving face

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In a tiny black and white taken from its usual place.

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I had never seen the photograph that had belonged to my granddad

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My granddad had been the first born child to this gentle white-haired man.

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And in sweet by and by

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We shall meet on that beautiful shore.

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Yes in the sweet by and by

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I shall meet him on that beautiful shore