1 Lord, I sometimes feel just like a stranger here,
As I travel down life's road, and nobody knows the sorrow that I bear,
Or how heavy my load; but in thee, dear Lord,
I have a precious friend, and my faith looks up to Thee,
Let me rise and go, for this dreary world below,
It's an unfriendly world to me.
Refrain:
Here I wander, like a beggar, thru the heat and the cold,
And my burdens are so heavy Lord, my sorrow's untold,
But to Jesus I am clinging, let me hide, Lord, in Thee,
For this old world with its sorrow, is an unfriendly world to me.
2 There are times when disappointments hover round,
And the way seems dark and long,
But the thought of Heaven and a shining crown,
Keeps me singing a song;
I've no other friend to lead me, blessed Lord,
So I daily cling to Thee, Keep me lest I stray,
From the straight and narrow way,
It's an unfriendly world to me. [Refrain]
Source: Songs of the Saints #87
Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri.
Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970.
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