SG Old Time Gospel Music

If you cannot, on the ocean, sail among the
swiftest fleet,
Rocking on the highest billows, laughing at the
storms you meet,
You can stand among the sailors, anchored yet
within the bay,
You can lend a hand to help them, as they launch
their boats away.

If you are too weak to journey up the mountain
steep and high,
You can stand within the valley, while the
multitudes go by;
You can chant in happy measure, as they slowly
pass along;
Though they may forget the singer, they will not
forget the song.

If you have not gold and silver ever ready to
command;
If you cannot toward the needy reach an ever open
hand;
You can visit the afflicted, o'er the erring you
can weep;
You can be a true disciple, sitting at the
Savior's feet.

If you cannot, in the conflict prove, yourself a
soldier true,
If, where fire and smoke are thickest, there's no
work for you to do;
When the battlefield is silent, you can go with
careful tread,
You can bear away the wounded, you can cover up
the dead.

If you cannot, in the harvest, gather up the
richest sheaves,
Many a grain both ripe and golden oft the
careless reaper leaves;
Go and glean among the briars growing rank
against the wall,
For it may be that their shadow hides the
heaviest wheat of all.

Do not, then, stand idly waiting, for some
greater work to do;
Fortune is a lazy goddess, she will never come to
you.
Go and toil in any vineyard, do not fear to do or
dare,
If you want a field of labor, you can find it
anywhere.

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