Johnny Cash Wings in the Morning song lyrics

Wings in the morning and license to fly

Straight to the portals of never more die

Never more pain in them old aching bones

Wings in the morning to carry us home

My grandfather lived by the book all his life

On rich bottom land with twelve kids and a wife

He never saw TV, nor rode a jet plane

But he knew that heaven was holding his claim

The salt of the earth, yet with faith in the Lord

They all got together in that one accord

And what could be greater than God's guarantee

That we can have heaven for eternity?

Rocks in the road and we stumble and fall

Lights getting low, so we don't see at all

But I promise you, on that getting up day

Wings in the morning, we'll fly away