lirik lagu sister r. mildred barker - on sister paulina springer
the song i’m going to sing right now has a special significance to me. when i was a child, there was an older sister named paulina springer. sister paulina was very, very dear to me. she was 90 years old and she used to ask if i would be the one to come and help her with her chores every morning. it could be to clean up her room
it was my greatest delight to do it, because i thought she was just an angel. she lived to be 90 years old, and i think it was two years that i served her, and she was taken ill very suddenly. she didn’t have a sickness and linger, she just started fading away
and when she was dying, the last day she lived, everyone knew she wouldn’t live past noon, she asked if the children could come in and see her. and she was fully conscious, so i was one, and i happened to be the last one in the line to see her, and she spoke to each one of us in the line. when i came up to her, she took my hand and said, “mildred, i want you to promise me something.” and at that point in my life, i’d have promised her anything in the world, i didn’t care what it was, so i said i’d promise her anything. and she said, “promise me that you’ll be a shaker.”
of course i promised her, but it took me a good many years to fulfill that promise, to come to the point where i really knew what that promise meant. but it’s always followed me, and as i’ve gone along through life, this old song that she sang, not especially at that particular time, but some years before she had had the gift of this little song
and after she talked with us, we left, and she said to the sisters in the room, “i’m not going to be here much longer. there’s two angels standing over by the cupboard doorway.” about 12 o’clock she just passed away, so this was the song
mother has come with a beautiful song
oh, telling me how
mother has come with a beautiful song
oh, telling me how
she’s come to bless the children dear
oh, telling me how
and christ our savior will be near
oh, telling me how
she’s come to bless the children dear
oh, telling me how
and christ our savior will be near
oh, telling me how
she told us that she learned that from [?}
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