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WE BUILT HIM THERE A MANSION
We built him a mansion, he and I
day by day we built it there up in the sky
For God had taken Momma home
and Dad was left here all alone
and he told me he was ready then to die
It was on a bleak and rainy night that Momma died
and in the days that followed, my daddy sat and cried
but then I came to live with him
and every so often, I would see a little grin
and it wasn't long before on me he relied
then one day, my daddy laughed out loud
and oh, I tell you, I felt so proud
and he'd tell me that I looked just like my Mom
then he'd break out singing old church songs
and he seemed to be happy all day long
and my world seemed so sunny
with no clouds
My Daddy was a christian through and through
and after a short while, he thought of many things
that he could do
in his wheel chair he would sit
and he's say he wasn't home sick yet
but if the Lord should call he'd be ready
tho the time, he didn't have a clue
but as the years rolled by, he grew more tired
and in the hear after, his mind was always mired
and he'd say to me, do you think it's ready
and I'd hold his hand so stready
and I would tell him
the crew that was to build his mansion
had not been hired
and he's just sat there in the chair
and I'd see his lonely smile
and I felt so sorry for him
and still I said that it would be a while
but he was lonelsome, for his soulmate she was gone
but still he lingered on
and to him the day's and month's seemed like ten thousand miles
Oh, I didn't like to hear him say it
because I couldn't let him go
my dearest little Daddy, and saddness for ihm, I couldn't show
and when he'd ask , do you think they've started
I couldn't think of him departed
and I'd tell him they
they hadn't bought the marble yet
and that sometimes they were very slow
and the weeks, they just rolled on by
and then sometimes, I'd hear his gentle sigh
and I could tell he was getting weaker every day
and I'd often hear him gently say
I'm so tired, do you think they'll start today
do you think they've started yet
and i'd say, well I just bet
they have the foundation down
and you will see it by and by
Well, we built his awesome mansion in the sky
his gold and marble home place there on high
and we put on all the frills and rails
used a lot of bolts and nails
but each time he'd ask, how's it coming
my heart just took off running
and I'd say, not finished yet
cause I just couldn't let my little daddy die
we then built all the walls
put in all the shower stalls
and we built those walls of marble oh so strong
and then we put the roof top on
but we put it up all wrong
well then we'd put it up again
and I'd hear him whisper, when
and I knew I couldn't put it off too long
So we continued to build there on clouds so high
and I laid the silver carpets by and by
they delivered his sparkling snow white robes
and his gleaming golden crown
both on a cloud of fluffy down
and I knew that it would not be very long
before he'd be going home
and I had to keep from crying
or at least give it a try
and when the last day came
I knew I'd nevr be the same
and I'd see that burning question in his eye
and as he lay there in the bed
with so many things unsaid
but all he wanted now was just to die
and then he started in to fret
and So I told him
they don't have the hqnd rails on the steps
and then he seemed to sik so low
and I knew then that it was
time to let him go
it was the hardest thing that I had ever done
and so I leaned down to his ear
and I said, I think I just saw your mansion, just shining n the sun
and I said, why don't you go and see it, do you hear
and I saw a sweet smile cross his face
and I knew he'd run the race
and I knew that he had seen the angels light
and now he had gone on out of sight
then I laid my hand on Daddy's chest
for I knew he'd gone to heavens rest
and I knew that when He arrived
that they had recieved the very best
and I wept my tears of pain
for I would never be the same
but I knew that Daddy was happy at long last
for when I said, you're mansion's done
he had left me oh so fast
So we built him there a mansion
brick by brick and stone by stone
and now he's there with precious Momma, and sweet Jesus
where the anels are at play all those long and golden days
and where I know he'll never be alone
