[ti:Hold Fast to the Right]
[ar:The Carter Family]
[al:Hello Stranger (1936-1937)]
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[00:00.00]Hold Fast to the Right - The Carter Family
[00:01.98]Written by：James Vaughan
[00:03.97]Kneel down by the side of your mother my boy
[00:08.97]You have only a moment I know
[00:12.85]
[00:14.04]But stay 'til I give you my parting advice
[00:19.08]It is all that I have to bestow
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[00:24.24]Hold fast to the right hold fast to the right
[00:29.32]Wherever your footsteps may roam
[00:33.43]
[00:34.27]And forsake not the way of salvation my boy
[00:39.30]That you learned from your mother at home
[00:43.03]
[00:50.98]You leave us to seek your employment my boy
[00:55.51]By the world you have yet to betide
[00:59.67]
[01:00.32]But in the temptations and trials you meet
[01:05.58]May your heart to the savior confide
[01:09.62]
[01:10.68]Hold fast to the right hold fast to the right
[01:15.71]Wherever your footsteps may roam
[01:19.44]
[01:20.66]And forsake not the way of salvation my boy
[01:25.57]That you learned from your mother at home
[01:29.33]
[01:36.99]I gave you to god in your cradle my boy
[01:41.76]And taught you the best that I knew
[01:45.77]
[01:46.66]And as long as his mercies permits me to live
[01:51.80]I shall never stop praying for you
[01:55.87]
[01:56.68]Hold fast to the right hold fast to the right
[02:01.85]Wherever your footsteps may roam
[02:05.39]
[02:06.64]And forsake not the way of salvation my boy
[02:11.90]That you learned from your mother at home
[02:15.58]
[02:23.00]You will find in the satchel a bible my boy
[02:27.80]It's the book of all others the best
[02:31.75]
[02:32.78]It will help you to live and prepare you to die
[02:37.90]And will lead to the gates of the blest
[02:41.92]
[02:42.80]Hold fast to the right hold fast to the right
[02:47.79]Wherever your footsteps may roam
[02:51.53]
[02:52.52]And forsake not the way of salvation my boy
[02:57.58]That you learned from your mother at home