Patricia McAteer

When I'm down and out and lonely, and my heart is filled with fear,
And my cross is far too heavy, with troubles I can't seem to bear.

Sweet Jesus take my hand.
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The light was ever shining, but I failed to see it's beam,
Till about a year ago, I emerged from the darkness and seen.

Now my life is far richer, I have learned to love this light,
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I beg you don't desert me when my heart is full of woe,
Lord lift the dark clouds and show us the route to go.

We know that there is heaven and that there is a hell,
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I had a dream the other day, that I could change the world.
I'd give all men dignity equality for all.

To the far east I'd give priority and I'd sow the land with wheat,
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She was just a few days old
A little bundle of joy
When her worried teenage mother
Abandoned her in the snow.
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