In My Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:2
Words & Music: R. Frank Lehman, 1900 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Lehman (head-and-shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Our homeless and lonely Savior said,
There are many mansions up there;
No place in the earth to lay His head,
Yet the many mansions up there.
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There are many mansions up there (up there),
Which Jesus has gone to prepare (to prepare);
There’s one for you and one for me,
If we trust Him to take us there.
My heavenly Father’s house o’erflows,
With the many mansions up there;
The joys of that place no mortal knows,
There are many mansions up there.
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When tired of my earthly home I know
There are many mansions up there;
Where death never comes nor evils grow,
There are many mansions up there.
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O wand’rers of earth oppressed with care,
There are many mansions up there;
You’re welcome to come with us and share
In those many mansions up there.
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