J. D. Sumner & the Stamps | God Still Lives in this Old House | Full VHS

[Applause] [Music] i've got [Music] [Music] jd sumner is in the guinness book of world records for having sung the lowest note in history his vocal cords are so long and his speaking voice alone is so low that that you have to listen clearly to make the words resonant in your ears [Music] jd's career started in his home state of florida back in the 40s with the sunny south quartet later he would join the sunshine boys in atlanta and then when tragedy struck the blackwood brothers in 1954 and a plane wreck claimed the lies of r.w blackwood and bill isles jd became the base singer of the famous blackwoods this move would make jd a household word in most gospel homes across america he stayed with the blackwood brothers until 1967 when he took over the management and base singing responsibilities of the stamps quartet the stam's quartet was jd's first opportunity to shape a quartet to his own liking he was the emcee for the group sometimes very funny sometimes very serious but always charming as is true with most singing groups there would be many personnel changes in the stamps quartet but no group can boast of any greater group of singers and musicians than those who performed with jd sumner and the stamps for years jd and the stamps were identified as the backup group for elvis presley until his death in 1977. recently many of the stamps alumni met together at a studio in nashville to recall stories from the road sing together and fellowship and reflect upon the goodness of god [Music] [Music] [Music] i wanna talk a little more like a christian should i wanna dig a little deeper into [Music] oh [Music] i want to shine [Music] [Music] deeper in the storehouse i want it [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] so and we want to welcome you to this special celebration of jd summoner and the stamps quartet jd has been doing this now for uh fabulous years no no come on 90 years right oh 53 years already doing a video on it and 53 years in gospel music and he's doing it with a very very old name the stamps quartet goes back from what james blackwood says to the to the 20s i do know this that on krld in dallas texas in 1936 that was the year i was born really mark they came on radio singing give the world a smile they were the first group to be on a 50 000 watt radio station not this particular group but uh but but they're looking good they're looking good but at any rate they say give the world a smile each day vo stamps was the manager and uh the organizer of the group and walter ripito bob bacon was in that group marion snyder was in the group and another man by the name of jim gaither g-a-i-t-he i want to tell you same way you spell it and i've been trying to find out whether or not that is related to me but it but it could have been because i've been asking jd a long time to be in that it's been related to the stamps i could have been related to the steps but this is going to be a this is going to be a great afternoon because we have a bunch of his friends to make sure that we keep this whole thing honest a few friends plus plus giants is back here to make sure if if he messes up on any of the notes like jd did on his videos we had to go and we had to go to fix it but that's welcome as they sing i just steal away and pray a good old stamps quartet start [Applause] every time i do a deed i should not do every time i say a word i should not say let me tell you what i do and it brings a lesson too i just still awake and somewhere [Music] i just give away and pray i just steal away and pray and i ask my blessed lord to lead the way [Music] i just steal away [Music] somewhere and praying [Music] christ the savior always here and answers [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i just feel away [Music] somewhere [Music] somewhere and pray [Music] [Applause] in shakespeare's play mark anthony said he said now we've come here to praise caesar not to bury him jd in your case the vote was real real close but we're we're going to try to heap some praise on you here here this this afternoon i know a couple uh that the vote was real real close on but we persuaded them but we thought if we were going to do this it would be good to do it with a lot of the people that you have spent many years especially these four that you've spent so many years on the road with james blackwood jake hess and hovey lister and uh and then of course the current group and then my lands when i look around at the uh when i look around at the stamps alumni it it reads like a who's who as far as all the things that they're doing sue dodd said that she didn't sing with you but you'd have given her job had she uh she would in a church of god minute [Laughter] what was the first group that you were with katie sunny south quartet me and jake was with the sunny south and so you left driving the truck and and started in working with the sunny south party yeah uh the first sunny south was chief big chief and lee kitchens moses lister and uh horace floyd quentin hicks and then there's all christian gospel sanger do they broke up got mad and split up and and chief chief and mosey and lee started the melody masters and that's when jake come down jake come down to uh join the sunny south quartet and that's when i got a job was uh i was driving a truck one day seriously a fruit truck and old chief was uh on the radio every day at 12 o'clock and god knows i want his job so bad i couldn't know that and uh there was a brand new song come out how old were you i was uh 17. and this song come out some of y'all remember he sent his son from heaven remember that and then you had to sing them back then without rehearsing and old chief missed that i said i'm going to get his job [Laughter] and i finally did [Music] all [Music] i feel like [Music] feel [Music] oh [Music] you know jd can say so many funny things back when i was at the blue ridge and we was working i'm sure this was us and y'all but it was working and we back then it was uh no i know it's kind of slim days but we had worked all week long and we'd lost money every night you know we'd had some of the auditoriums because the advertising we had to pay to get out you know so he'd cost us money every night to sing we was pulling up the program that night and jd said i sure hope we break even tonight i could use the money and back then you had to sing around on in the radio station you had to sing on one mic and jake would be over there and i was over here and uh anytime we looked at one another i mean i had to sing all the time on my head to the floor i'm not looking at that idiot and then the time i gave him a haircut i gave him i still owe you a haircut i i just come out of the army and uh and jake come down and we didn't have any money and he needed the haircut bag i told him i said jake i cut here in the army i mean i'm a barber he said and and he believes you yeah yeah he believed me so he sat down and i cut his hair and uh he's about looking like a bowl shaving a head but i haven't had any hair since [Music] for a long time i've traveled down a long lonely road [Music] my heart was so heavy and sin i say then i heard about jesus [Music] what a wonderful life i'm so glad that i found out that he would bring me up through his saving hearts thank god i am free free free [Music] [Music] again [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] like a bird out of prison that's taken its [Music] [Music] there's [Music] [Music] that he would bring me up through his thank god [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] is throw me away show me the way thank god i am anyone who has followed gospel music down across the years are well aware of the friendly rivalry between jd sumner and george johns these two old characters just can't resist an opportunity to jab at each other i don't know why bill always sets me near jd he he can't sing he can't stay on pitch and it bothers me the first time i walked in that room there was just a real spirit of love you know they tell me that he used to really sing i wished i could have heard him back in [Music] no trouble come my [Music] he understands he's with me all the way by my side [Music] he took away [Music] hey [Music] he will be my god [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] i moved to atlanta and back in those days to work out of atlanta i mean you were ever more a pro when you got to work in atlanta georgia there was a homeland harmony the statesman the harmoneers the lefers and the rangers all in atlanta so that was quartet heaven and so i finally got to come up and the sunshine boards wasn't much they wasn't uh up on that totem pole like the rest of them and so i was trying to get to going with the big boys i mean uh jake wouldn't hardly speak to me he had a chivalry convertible back then and uh but i want to get with a big boy so moses lester lived right up the street from me him and wylene so i thought the best thing to do was to get mosey and wildling down for supper at my house and so they came down and uh raised in florida i was raised in a pentecostal church and you i mean our we just didn't say many words without getting a weapon you certainly didn't say nothing about no hemorrhoids that was cussing straight out to say so i never knew what hemorrhoids or thyroids any other kind of roids were i just i never didn't know and uh honest to goodness i just didn't of course i just finished eighth grade in school and didn't know much of anything but we were setting up eating dinner my wife had candles on the table we was really trying to be big and my my thyroid glands was falling up and uh i reached up like this and uh i said man my hemorrhoid is killing me killing me and moses said well if the if they're up that high no wonder they're kidding so they they explained to me what the difference it was jd is old he just ought to hang it up and let them young guys go on he's ruined every group he's ever been in he calls the blackwood brothers to disband you know the master's five and when he worked with them he called jake to have a heart attack james had a stroke he killed elvis i mean dubai he's bad news you know one thing about growing older you kind of mellow out and those petty little things don't bother anymore last year at the george yachts homecoming in the north city they named him man of the year had a bad year in the north [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] words and melody like the rippling water flow but amazing grace how sweet the sound is the sweetest song i know [Music] he paid the price in just a little while and i've heard them sing beyond the cross and give the world a smile and i've heard them sing there is a foul that once is how sweet the sound is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um tony brown i'd say tony brown used to he came to the stamps quartet when he was 19 years old and uh i hired him at 125 a week that was my lord many years ago and today tony brown is the biggest man in the music industry in any kind of music in nashville tennessee and makes more in a day than i do in five years and uh but tony brown when he was when he was a young man he well he just made my life i've never been a finer young man and if i if i know he had that much sense i wouldn't have treated him all that bad how [Applause] i want to say that you know i'm honored to be here with you jd and and i've watched bill gaither's uh videos of all these things and i kept wondering why i never got invited and then uh it took you to get me invited [Music] there is come in the day when no heart rate shall come [Music] no more clouds in the sky no more tears behind all is peace forever [Music] that will be [Music] there'll be no [Music] sorrow there [Music] no more paint [Music] forever [Music] glorious [Applause] [Music] [Music] i want to save me by his grace when he [Applause] [Music] what a day stay that will be [Music] upon his face the one who saved me by his grace [Music] glorious [Music] life [Music] has the [Music] is [Music] all the flowers in the fields [Music] to [Music] then they named they nailed his hands and they pierced his press aside all the pain was so great that tears filled filled his eyes yet he spoke he spoke not a word until the last breath he drew then said oh father forgive them for they know not what they do tell me what can we why did jesus christ [Music] is [Music] me i remember when the stamps first formed and i said man oh man how in the world can i ever get to be in a in a full-time gospel group and that was my desire and that was what i really really wanted to do and it was a learning and growing process for me and jd sumner is the one that gave me the chance to really start in music jd called me and said that he's going to be making a change and would like me to audition and it was the thrill of my life to audition for the stamps quartet and i wanted to say to jd it was the most thrilling time that i have ever worked i think in music was when i worked with j.d sumner and the stamps quartet and we did our gospel music let alone touring with elvis i mean that was a golly what a thrill that was too but jd i respect you i honor you and i thank you very very much for helping me and giving me a start in music some people say that this old-time religion oh it's just a thing of the past [Music] but in this modern day that we're living oh it's the only thing that will last now you may think that i'm a little old-fashioned well friend that's all right with me but i'm sorry that i am a christian and from sin i have been set free i know i know there's no doubt about it [Music] me to atlanta over yonder he's prepared for the pure and the truth it's a place where death and sickness can't enter i'm a-going brother how about now you today or maybe tomorrow he'll return in the ropes of pure white i'm packing up now i'm getting my things together who knows he may come my sins are forgiven [Music] my sins are forgiven i'm on my way to a place that's called heavy [Applause] [Music] [Music] in 1936 vo stamps original stamps quartet broadcast for the first time a regular daily 15 minute radio show on krld out of dallas texas their theme song was give the world a smile each day the personnel of that original group was vo stamps walter rippetoe bob bacon marion snyder and jim gaither that broadcast was the beginning that spahn radio broadcast all over the country and would carry the name of stamps and all of the groups had regional radio programs to help promote the many new song books they were publishing these new books would contain many songs that went on to become standards where could i go if we never meet again this side of heaven turn your radio on and just a little talk with jesus and many more vo stamps passed away in 1940 his brother frank took over the responsibility of the quartet and the music company that group could boast of many well-known singers pascal mitchell harley lester clyde and pat garner and perhaps the two best known names are henry slaughter and glenn payne vo started singing schools back in the 30s teaching young people how to read shape notes and sing four-part harmony frank carried on that tradition in the late 40s and 50s many a well-known gospel singer got their start in the stamps baxter singing school ben and brock's beer ove lister george johns denver crumpler and many more frank would pass away in 1965. jd sumner bought the music company in 1964 and put a group together in the early 60s by the name of the stamps quartet [Music] in 1967 jd joined the group to carry on the name of the great tradition of the stamps quartet we had just left nashville we were on our way to somewhere in north carolina i think it was and we were in the back of the bus cutting up and trying to amuse ourselves and we got into the thing of let me see your finger we got into this thing of finger wrestling like this and seeing who's who was the strongest and i just turned jd's finger just it wasn't very little pressure at all but i heard this thing and i thought well now he's got a trick finger there it's it's it's he's put thrown it out of joint or whatever and he looked at me and he said you just broke my finger i said no way he said no i'm serious you just broke my finger he had pulled my finger and pulled it back in place so he had pulled his face sure enough we had to stop at the hospital in knoxville you know and uh he said you you you just doing that i said trust me my finger is broke have you ever seen him cup his ear when he's trying to sing you know what it is he can't sing loud enough to hear himself sing and [Laughter] it's a good thing because he'd quit if he could it's great to get the stage in life that competition doesn't mean anything if it's your brother you just love him george's mind getting bad other morning he left on a trip slammed his wife and kissed the door goodbye dumb dumb dumb some people often wonder why i shout and sing but they don't know about god's love i try to tell a story all about his glory and about my hope [Music] all the time [Music] he's gonna dance [Music] is [Music] he was he was doing this recitation doing the 23rd psalm and uh he said the lord is my [Laughter] and of course isaac said not i started laughing already and all those people started looking jd said the lord is my and just left the the platform and went and got in the bus i went out there to see him he said if you can't even remember who the lord is it's time to get out he did not go back did not do that [Applause] yeah i i was doing that 23rd psalm and i said the lord is mine and that mind just said the lord is mine and about that time jake got that beautiful laugh oh i just took the mic and put it on the fan walked out the side door got on the bus and never did go back and record my good friend come out there and encourage me a lot when j.d left ace richmond and went with james and the blackwoods he wasn't real happy about that and it made uh ace wasn't real happy because he lost jd i was just a little bitty girl but i remember this and um so he would tell when people come around and say well now where's jd what happened to him he said oh he moved to memphis he's driving a bus [Applause] and and one more thing i think should be on here too i don't know if this is time to do this but the guinness book of world records i think that's a pretty incredible thing what year were you inducted as the lowest freak of nature never hit a low note when he was born no when i took over the stamps i was trying to uh get the best quartet i could and i tried out a lot of people in fact i tried out george on the baritone but he wasn't low enough ed hill could sing lower than george there was a guy in seattle that kept bugging me about he wanted to prove that i was lowest base thing in the world and uh he kept home until my wife sent him a record of blessed assurance and i hit a double o c that's lauren usain george a double o.c uh to that world guinness book of world records and they put me in and that was about oh during the time i was living 70 something on what it was but uh i was in there for a few years and then some other idiot claimed he was lower nine but he would you know jd a lot of people think that that that uh you know that batter that you and george do back and forth that that thing's really in fact they read your column the singing news they say are they serious about this yeah i uh the last time you know it's funny uh i it's hard me to write anything funny anymore since i lost my wife but uh the last thing it was wrote that people got so mad about it i didn't write it [Laughter] ed enoch went back him and uh jerry kirksen took a lot of things i had said in the past and i mean they buried george in that one and i didn't even ride it i mean and i was one first assembly god preacher i know he's backslidden i mean he got some man told me i couldn't sing even a 30 as good as george and he even lied that i didn't look as good as george and you know that's a lie but we don't uh but george and i go back uh many many years as to being good buddies i mean real real good buddies let me say this uh and verify what jd said for the last 40 years uh many schoolboy right here have been wonderful wonderful friends hardly a a month goes by that we don't talk on the phone right and if it's not about something the business we just call each other to tell them that we we love each other right it's been an incredible friendship with jd but and a lot of people does it has misunderstood so people ask me really how do i feel about jd i hate him [Laughter] no no no no but we have been friends for over 40 years and and some people don't understand the the banner that we do between each other but years ago and jd can tell the story probably better than i can but uh i forget where it was but one night after jd walked off the stage and i had there also i walked up to jd and i said jd i've been i can't tell it very yeah okay because it meant more to you no we was in the back room there at spartanburg yeah and uh some of the base thing was in there we was all talking about who was our favorite bass singer i was in the blue ridge back in those days i was with uh i think i was with the stamp yeah maybe the black would but anyway i said well my favorite bass singer was a.d sword i mean uh the way he could he couldn't sing uh fast or rhythm but i thought he had the best force ever been in the venice the other bass singer he i think he liked jim weights and george said all right jd i'm not saying it just because you're here but he said you're my favorite he said uh uh i don't know of anybody i'd rather hear saying you and well by that time he had my emotions you were crying oh yeah man he i mean he got to me big old tears and he kept sitting there and what aggravates me is he said it over and over and over trying to get the message how did you say it the same thing i'd say jd ain't nobody i hadn't rather hear saying than you and and jd didn't get it so he started crying so i said it again real fast to make him understand and he started crying harder out and then i wasn't going to tell him no more what i said you know and then no last week was working dayton ohio i come in the backyard for him and he's the first one i've seen he come up he come up to me and looked up he said jd let me say once again ain't nobody i had brother here singing you i said george i said run that by me brought that by me one more time if you said what i think you said i'm gonna kill you he did well i'll tell you what now uh when my wife passed away uh george was in town and hit me uh the cathedrals and and i always had to believe it was of god for them i called george and uh i wanted george to sing the funeral and he said absolutely uh they even miss taking pictures uh to sing it my wife you know and i told him i said i won't blend this thing uh we shall see jesus uh which he'd i mean ain't nobody can sing anybody glad absolutely i wanted george to say a child a key and you know me and my stupid mind huh how foolish i get i come back told george i said i don't want you to get back to that casket i got a pa set and i mean it's set up i want you to come out there and sing to mary i mean try your best to wake her up and i never i never uh i could never say nothing about george johnson the way he even said praise god she's [Music] absolutely once i was cloaked in the rags of my sins wretched and poor lost and lonely within but with wondrous compassion the king of all kings in pity and love took me under his wing oh yes oh [Music] yes [Music] praise god praise god i'm a child now i'm a child [Music] well he's made me his own and i'm washed by his blood and i'm clothed in his love and someday i'll sing [Music] oh yes [Music] is praise god and praise god i'm a child of praise god this coming friday thanks to um the grace of god and the patience of labriska we're going to have our 39th wedding anniversary but honey i'd like to take a minute and pay tribute to a marriage that lasted a lot longer and a half years uh j.d sumner and his late wife mary that we knew and loved so very much through the years and was loved by everybody that knew her just a praying lady and they say behind every successful man is a as a great wife and a surprise mother-in-law and that's certainly true in j.d so we we'd like to do this song and dedicate dedicated to jd and uh and the memory of mary sumner it's called children and the children and his children shirley enoch francis francis grandkids kathy grandkids such a wonderful family we love you j.d i love you john tell me that that man right there done me some great favors in my time and i was planning my back too i ain't a better man in gospel music than joel hemphill thank i'm not worthy but thank you well you know what you've done partners in emotion we share a precious family our addresses are the same we share mornings over coffee and we even share a name we've shared many joys and sorrows precious friends that we have known oh we're two very different people we are one in flesh and bone and we are partners in emotion as ease go back and whatever makes you sad brings tears to my eyes i can't always make you happy but i'm happy when i try cause we are partners in emotion you and i [Music] we love flowers in the springtime love the colors and the fog we love walking by the ocean our holding hands in the mall we love church on sunday morning amazing grace ever alone we love to bow our heads together and we still love an old love song because we are partners in emotion [Music] and whatever makes you sad brings tears i can't always make you happy but i'm happy when i try cause we're a part you and i [Music] we shared lots of tears and laughter someday we'll share forever [Music] and we are partners in emotion as [Music] and whatever makes you sad brings tears to my eyes [Music] but i'm happy when i try [Music] [Music] [Applause] i'm [Music] my strength is renewed [Music] foreign [Music] there is me surely goodness and mercy is mine with him on his word i firmly now stand [Music] i can feel [Music] there's a place [Music] where i can go to be alone with jesus when life's burdens and what strength i find in those trials and what victory in my times of despair oh surely goodness grant mercy is smile with him on his word i [Music] firmly with us [Music] is the touch of his hands the banquet hall was filled and to speak for the occasion the nation's best known orator had been flown in after speaking and thrilling the audience and in closing he said if there would be a request and i can i would be glad to feel it in the far corner of the banquet hall set up an elderly silver-haired retired minister he said sir would you quote for me the 23rd psalm the order being somewhat surprised that this request said yes sir if when i'm through then you too quote the 23rd song the old minister nodded his head yes and was seated and the orc to begin the lord is my shepherd and i shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside still waters he restoreth my soul when he had finished a thunderous applause cheers and a standing ovation then he said to the old minister now sir you quote the 23rd psalm the old minister feebly arose his voice broken by years in the ministry begin the lord is my shepherd and i shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth be beside the still waters and he restores my soul when he had finished there wasn't a dry eye in the banquet hall the orchestra stood up and said ladies and gentlemen i have reached your ears he has reached your hearts and the difference is i know the 23rd psalm but he he knows the shepherd i can feel the touch of his newness and mercy is mine with him on his word i firmly now stand and though [Music] with a hay uh [Music] touch i dreamed of a city called glory [Music] so bright [Music] i cried holy [Music] the angels all met me there [Music] they carried me from mansion to mention [Music] the sights i saw [Music] but then i said i want to see jesus [Music] cause he's the one who died for my knees [Music] glory [Music] glory to the son then as i enter the gates of that [Music] city my loved ones all knew me when [Music] they took me down the streets of heaven all the seams too many to [Music] take jacob and isaac i talked with mom [Music] but i said i want to see jesus comes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Music] glory glory fill his glory [Music] glory [Applause] [Applause] glory [Music] glory god we're fortunate today to have uh at least some of jd's family here i know jd is very very proud of his family i've i only heard him tell about his early days down in florida jd why don't you introduce us okay well you've heard me speak a lot about church of god uh one of the pastors one time told me said you you've done more advertising for the church of god than anybody i know of because always you give me a church of god cord so what kind is that i said the right cord but this is my brother he's been a church of god preacher for longer than i have been singing he's retired now but he lives in cleveland a reverend rh sumner and he's a better priest and i'm a baseline but he's but he was a base singer too i used to go home and i was a professional singer and i told him what he knows i used to go in the choir and he would drown me out you know and still do it he's a songer alrighty but i mean they say jd we can't hear you i mean all we hear is buddy so uh he was a good bass fan this is my baby daughter her name is shirley and uh uh that next to her is her boy and i might i better say this right now before i get in trouble it's ed's son too it's ed's son and my grandson jason and jason is about oh about an inch and a half taller than me here a while back well i went up to grabbed him i said i suspected i better whip you while i still can he grabbed me by the shirt and said are you sure you can do it now i said let's pray about it and this is my granddaughter kathy and she's married and got two two wonderful little uh babies so i'm a great granddaddy and then that's the older daughter over there little francis that uh jake said never done nothing wrong in her life so that's that's the summer family it's a wonderful family donnie donnie come down here also uh donnie uh is a very important part of your family he is your nephew of he's my cousin my nephew and my granddad i think that's your sister you see the gentleman on the inn adopted francis the gentleman this side adopted me their brothers and they adopted brother and sister and for the whole time i sang with jd every night he introduced me as the brother of his daughter and ed enoch as his wife's son-in-law and so he thought everybody thought that he was joking and that i was really his son but that's my uncle and that's my father and i'd like to say that i owe this man a special debt of gratitude being his adopted child and i just want to thank him right here in front of all of our friends for making me his very own and living a christian example before me all these years i love you daddy i um i had the opportunity for eight years here to sing with my uncle j.d sumner and all my life it had been a a dream of mine to sing with him and i had the opportunity on september 7th 1965 to walk out in metropolis illinois in a brown suit and a pair of brown loafers that belonged to chuck ramsey and sing my first concert in a manner that i had dreamed about all of my life and for eight years i lived with him i left the stamps organized my own group and for another three years i associated with him as part of the elvis entourage i was converted in 76 went into the ministry our lives have come closer entwined since that point than they ever were before and i can tell you that having lived with him having shared the ups and the downs with him seen the good times and the bad times and i can tell you i know of no better gentleman in the whole world than those two gentlemen on the end right there and for their prayers and for their opportunities they've given me i will forever be grateful for the gentleman who adopted me who discipled me in the ways of the lord for the gentleman who gave me my chance in music and has been my hero all the days of my growing up you certainly are two great big gentlemen and i'm glad to be ken to you may god continue to sustain both of you according to his word i've never been one you all know me i've never been one to uh to get on stage and uh and what you call testify i always said my brother does the preaching and my sister do the testifying and i was the singer of the family but this is my testimony uh uh man this was written especially for for me and just just listen to the words and and this is jd sumner if i hope i can sing it and uh i'm going to dedicate it to my brother uh buddy still lives i miss a wise so if this earthly tabernacle would be dissolved today i traded for a finer one that would not pass away but till the day arise when it's time for moving out it's such sweet peace to know the lord still lives in this whole house the sweet has fortified these walls and peace has reigned since he's been walking up and down these halls [Music] there's snow upon the rooftop now [Music] [Music] still lives in this old house [Music] to him it's been a dwelling [Music] and it's short fine and fancy and all i can boast about is after all the years the lord still lives in this old house [Music] there were times when he had the right just up and move away [Music] and there were times and days i knew it took god's amazing grace to stay [Music] that's why i can sing and shout it's such sweet peace to him it's been a dwelling place where he kept mine in his [Music] and it sure ain't fun and fancy and all i can boast about is after all the years of the lord still lives in this old house still lives [Music] hi i'm bill gaither and i can't tell you the joy that gloria and i have had in this very room sitting in heavenly places with some of the greatest people on this earth moments of wonderful fellowship beautiful times of praise and worship joy laughter and tears and to try to capture it somehow on film so you can enjoy it there in your home many of you have asked are there other videos available while there are just call this toll-free number for more information [Music] you

Channel: Joshua Oak

Views: 288,129

Keywords: Gospel Music, Gaither

Id: Y9wdeUWJwTI

Length: 91min 42sec (5502 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 10 2020