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Album : His Hand In Mine
The Blackwood Brothers
Lyrics and music : Aileen Hanks a blind singer
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lyrics
[Verse 1]
In my father's house are many mansions
If it were not true he would have told me so
He has gone away to live in that bright city
He's preparing me a mansion there I know
[Verse 2]
Jesus died upon the cross to bear my sorrow
Freely died that souls like you might have new life
But I know that soon there'll come a bright tomorrow
When the world will all be free from sin and strife
[Verse 3]
(Do not shun the Savior's love, from up in glory)
(Or you won't be there to sing the gospel story)
In my father's house are many mansions
If you're true then to this land you'll surely go
In my father's house are many mansions
If it were not true he would have told me so
He has gone away to live in that bright city
He's preparing me a mansion there I know
[Verse 2]
Jesus died upon the cross to bear my sorrow
Freely died that souls like you might have new life
But I know that soon there'll come a bright tomorrow
When the world will all be free from sin and strife
[Verse 3]
(Do not shun the Savior's love, from up in glory)
(Or you won't be there to sing the gospel story)
In my father's house are many mansions
If you're true then to this land you'll surely go
"In My Father's House" is a gospel song
by the Blackwood Brothers, originally recorded in
1954. It was one of only two songs, the other being "I Have But One
Goal", which the group recorded between 1953 and 1956.
Elvis Presley recorded the song at RCA
Studios on October 30, 1960 and it appears on the album His Hand in Mine. Jimmy
Blackwood was lead singer of the Blackwoods, but it was Jake Hess, lead for the
Statemen, who was a major influence on Elvis. The version recorded by
Elvis is slow, in the key of B Major and
progresses from B to E major, to C# 7 to F#7.
Biblical
reference
The spiritual song makes
reference to the King James Version of the Bible in John 14:2
which says "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." The song
refers to how "In My Father's House are many mansions" and how God is
preparing a mansion in heaven. It also refers to how Jesus died on the
cross to "bear my sorrow" and "so souls like you may have new
life".
Aileen Hanks, a blind singer, composed the lyrics and music of
this gospel song introduced by the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and later
rearranged and recorded by Elvis Presley.]
Elvis was said to be particularly fond of playing hymns on his
gilded piano in Graceland's Music Room, "talking about home as heaven and
the mansion as a mark of God's favor."
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