One Day Near Your Door

[Intro - Traveling guitar; fiddle joins] [Verse 1 - Bubba, male solo] How I long for where You dwell, Lord, Heart and body call Your name; Even sparrows find a shelter, Swallows nest beside Your place. Blessed the ones who live before You, Ever singing in Your house; Blessed the ones whose strength is in You, With the pilgrim road marked out. [Chorus - Duet] One day near Your door, Lord, More than years of wandering wide; Let me stand upon Your threshold Rather than with wrong reside. You, our sun and You, our shield, Grace and honor from Your hand; One day near Your door, Lord, Is the place I long to stand. [Verse 2 - Darlene, female solo] Through the valley called the weeping, Pilgrims find the springs made new; Rains make pools along the journey, Strength to strength they travel through. Each appears before You in Zion; Hear our prayer, O Jacob's God. Look with favor on Your anointed, You, our shield along the road. [Instrumental Break - Fiddle; ocarina; brief original wordless yodel] [Bridge - Darlene, female solo] No good thing will You withhold, Lord, From the ones who walk upright; Blessed the one who trusts Your keeping, Blessed beneath Your guarding light. [Final Chorus - Duet and family harmonies] One day near Your door, Lord, More than years of wandering wide; Let me stand upon Your threshold Rather than with wrong reside. You, our sun and You, our shield, Grace and honor from Your hand; One day near Your door, Lord, Is the place I long to stand. [Outro - Duet] Living God, our hearts are calling; Near Your door is where we'd be.