What A Way To Say Good-bye

I have stood by the bedside of friends and family dear.
And shivered up and down my spine from things I'd see and hear.
Hear them talking about heavenly sounds a far away look in their eyes
Then with one final breath they'd find their rest, What a way to say good-bye.

CHORUS
What a way to say good-bye to friends and family by your side.
To say I'm going home but it won't be long, and I'll meet you by the river side.
There we'll say hello and never know the pain we've left behind.
On God's peaceful shore we’ll part no more, what a way to say goodbye.

I know some day I must go away when God for me does call.
But friends be brave I know that I'm saved I gave the Lord my all.
So unlike friends when I come to my end if I don't get the time,
Let me tell you now I'm heaven bound, what a way to say good-bye

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