STRINGING BEANS and SINGING HYMNS

Verse 1 (6/8 time):

When I was younger I heard a sweet song

about things that happened in days that are gone –  

before high tech gadgets, before Life's fast pace –  

being with family and giving God praise.

Chorus 1 (4/4 time):

We'd be

on the front porch, stringing beans,

filling corn and peas to the cook pot's brims –  

families on the front porch all day long –  

laughing, working, playing, and singing hymns!

Verse 2 (6/8 time):

Families had gardens, sometimes smoke houses, too –

Maybe chickens and hogs –  oh what hard work they’d do.

Simple but healthy, the food that they raised –

Praying and thanking and giving God praise.

Chorus 2 (4/4 time):

We'd be

on the front porch, shucking corn,

shelling peas and beans from about mid-morn –  

families on the front porch all day long –  

laughing, working, playing, and singing songs!

Verse 3 (6/8 time):

Now I'm much older and fast go my days.

My voice is much weaker but I still sing God's praise.

Food is now canned goods from some grocery store,

but families on front porches meant so very much more!

Chorus 3 (4/4 time):

We'd be

on the front porch, stringing beans,

putting squash and peas to the cook pot's brims –  

families on the front porch all day long –  

laughing, working, playing, and singing songs!

Repeat Chorus, adding:

(Tag): stringing beans and singing hymns!

- by Netagene. I wrote 2 verses and 2 choruses in maybe 15 minutes on October 29, 2013. I wrote another verse and another chorus during Bible class (oops!) October 30. Years ago, a man and his 2 teen daughters played bluegrass. He wrote a song by that name. I bought their cassette, but I can't remember their name or where they were from. My cassette was gone in a fire in 1989 ... so I wrote my own song by that name (you can copyright a song, but not a song title). I have a tune for it, and will probably notate it eventually. I have to sit at the piano with paper and a good pencil with a good eraser and hand-write it. -