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. -
