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If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side

(Henry Slaughter)


Copyright Harvest Time Pub./Elvis Presley Music Inc.

Original by Weatherford Quartet in 1960


RCA studio session - May 25-28, 1966 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 May 28, 1-5 am

TPA4 0922-05
March 1967 LP RCA LSP 3758 How Great Thou Art
Outtakes
Take 1: June 25, 2002 CD RCA BMG 07863-65115-2 Elvis Today, Tomorrow & Forever
Takes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6: June 21, 2010 CD FTD 506020-975014 CD How Great Thou Art
Take 6: November 10 2003 CD FTD 82876 53368-2 So High





I don't know just what I'd do
If the Lord wasn't walking by my side
When I was drifting (when I was drifting on the sea of a despair)
and I was wandering (I was wandering if Jehova's up there)
When Jesus found me,(Jesus found me in my sinful life)
he heard me praying (he heard me praying on my knees at night)
Now I'm singing (Now I'm singing this happy song)
because I'm happy (because I'm happy as I go along)
And I don't know (I don't know) just what I'd do
If the Lord wasn't walking by my side
What would I do, (What would I do when a tear fills my eyes)
what would I do (What would I do when it's my time to die)
Well I'd be lonely, discouraged
Burdened on the way
If the Lord wasn't walking by my side every day


* I'd be so friendless (I'd be friendless all alone and blue)
and I'd be helpless (I'd be helpless, wouldn't know what to do)
And I don't know (I don't know) just what I'd do
If the Lord wasn't walking by my side


(What would I do) What would I do when the tears fill my eyes
(What would I do) What would I do when it's my time to die
(I'd be lonely, discouraged, burdened on the way)
If the Lord wasn't walking by my side every day


I'd be so friendless, (I'd be friendless all alone and blue)
I'd be so helpless (I'd be helpless, wouldn't know what to do)
And I don't know (I don't know) just what I'd do
If the Lord wasn't walking by my side every day


If the Lord (wasn't walking) wasn't walking by my side
(wasn't walking by my side)