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HANDWRITING ON THE WALL Sung by: Mary Frances (Mrs. G.H.) Caldwell Recorded in Pine Bluff, AR 11/10/62 Click here to listen to the original recording ??: "Well, how about that 'Handwriting on the Wall'?" Mrs. Caldwell: "Oh, that's what I was trying to think of. Are you ready for that? Well, this song I have heard my father sing when I was a little girl.") At the feast of Belshazzar And a thousand of his lords, As they drank from golden vessels, The Book of Truth records, In the night of the rebel In the royal palace hall, They were seized with consternation Said the hand upon the wall. Chorus: It's the hand of God on the wall, The hand of God on the wall. Shall the record be found wanting, Or shall it be found trusting, While that hand is writing on the wall? See the brave Captain Daniel As he stood before the throne And rebuked the haughty monarch For their mighty deeds of wrong. As he read out the writing, 'Twas the doom of one and all, For the kingdom now was finished, Said the hand upon the wall. (Chorus) (Mrs. Caldwell: "That's all I remember of it, but there might be more." Dr. Wolf: "Let's see. Your father was a minister, you said?" Mrs. Caldwell: "He was a Methodist minister.") |
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