Someone is Waiting for Me (Charles Albert Tindley)

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(Posted 2022-09-30) CPDL #71000:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2022-09-30). Score information: A5, 1 page, 49 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Soul Echoes, 1909. All four stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Someone is Waiting for Me
First Line: It may be a brother with whom I did play
Composer: Charles Albert Tindley
Lyricist: Charles Albert Tindley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1909 in Soul Echoes, Edition 2, no. 18
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Original text and translations

English text

1. It may be a brother with whom I did play,
Ere the death angel had called him away,
Somewhere in glory so happy and free,
Watching and waiting this moment for me.

Chorus
Someone is waiting in heaven for me,
Somebody’s face I am longing to see,
Someone just over life’s troublesome sea,
Is watching and waiting for me.

2. It may be a sister, the charm of our home,
Whom in bright springtime, through meadows we roamed,
Though now up in heaven bright mansions to see,
Watching and waiting this moment for me.

3. It may be a father whom I love so dear,
Whose kindest provisions relieved me of care,
Somewhere with angels beyond death's cold sea,
Watching and waiting this moment for me.

4. It may be a mother who rocked me to sleep,
Like fretful infants I sometimes would weep,
Now she's in heaven from trials all free,
I know she's watching this moment for me.