Johnny Cash - Suppertime lyrics

Many years ago in days of childhood I used
To play until evening time would come
Then winding down an old familiar pathway I
Hear my mother call at setting sun

Come home, come home it's suppertime
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home it's suppertime
We're going home at last

Some of the fondest memories
Of my childhood are
Woven around suppertime when mother used to
Call from the back steps of the old
Homeplace, "Come on home now son
It's suppertime" My how I'd love
To hear that once
Again but you know time has woven for me
A realization of a truth that's even
More thrilling that soon we'll be
Called together around the great supper table
Up there for the greatest
Suppertime of them all with our Lord
I can almost hear the
Call now coming through the portals
Of heaven, "Come home son
It's suppertime come on home"

Come home, come home it's suppertime
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home it's suppertime
We're going home at last

Through the distant clouds I see my mother
Her face is shining bright, with tender love
She's gone up in heaven, with her maker
And I can still hear her voice, from up above
(and she said)

Come home, come home it's suppertime
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home it's suppertime
We're going home at last