Ruby
"Lovingkindness is better than life." Psalm 63:3
*************
The life of one we love is never lost
The influence goes on through all the lives it ever touched.
*************
Yodeling in Heaven
A Collection of Beth Williams Songs
1.
Romans 8:28 ( New!)
2. Little Things You Do
3. Now ( Don't Look Back)
4. My God & I
5.
Rock of Ages
6. Ruby & John
7. I Sit & Ride
8. Send the Rain
9. Voices
10. Get up & Move Around
11. Just a Closer Walk with Thee
12. He Kissed Her Picture
13. Yodeling in Heaven ( New!
THIS SONG IS ALSO ON:
"In
This Old House"
Now
In This Old House
Ruby and John
Voices
O-D-I
Mason Sunset
This Farm
A Ladder I Can Climb
The Girl
Big Bad Blues
My God and I
Wish You Well
Freedom
My grandmother Ruby ( Mimi to me) was one of the most kindhearted, spiritual, understanding & loving women I've ever known.
Mimi was on her deathbed when I wrote this song. I've always felt it was a message from my grandfather, John, to let Mimi know he was waiting for her on the other side. Not only waiting but wading out into the river to meet her as she crossed over. I believe, just she did, that we're reunited with our loved ones when God takes us home.
She wasn't able to say, but my hope is hearing this song gave her comfort and reassurance. Not that she really needed it, I'm sure. For as long as I can remember, she spent her entire life in service to the Lord. She loved & trusted Him so. "An old Bible on the edge of the bed, tattered and torn from being read......"
I found this Scripture she had written out in a book she gave me in 1972. "Lovingkindness is better than life." Psalm 63:3 She lived this truth.
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will b raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed. I Corinthians 15: 51 & 52
ruby and john
( 3:41)
words & music by Beth Williams
Ruby sits on the edge of the
bed,
wearing old brown shoes & a scarf on her head
had her suitcase packed for nigh on 18 years
in her favorite cotton dress, she wants to look her best
when she steps back from this black veil of tears
Ruby's ready to fly over the
rainbow...
Ruby's ready to fly peacefully
over the rainbow, cross the river into the arms of john
standing knee-deep in water, wading patiently
seems like only yesterday
she gave her young heart away
to the farm boy she met out on hornbeck pond
always said she knew right then
walkin' down the road with him
she would someday marry that boy john
Ruby's ready to fly over the
rainbow...
Ruby's ready to fly peacefully
over the rainbow, cross the river into the arms of john
standing knee-deep in water , wading patiently
through forty nine sweet years
they saw love shine
soon it will be John & Ruby for all time
an old Bible on the edge of
the bed,
tattered & torn from being read
night after night alone there in her room
through an open window a cold wind blows ...
a train whistle comes and goes
and leaves just the smell of ruby's sweet perfume
Rubys ready to fly over the
rainbow...
Rubys ready to fly peacefully
over the rainbow, cross the river into the arms of john
standing knee deep in water, wading patiently
he's standing knee deep in water wading patiently
he's standing knee deep in water waiting patiently