The White Dove

Source Recording Artist: The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys

Album: Single (The White Dove) (1949)

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Song Details

Title: The White Dove

Alternate Titles: White Dove

Songwriter(s):

Carter Stanley

First Release: The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys (1949)

Themes: God, Animals

Other Genres: Gospel

Source Recording Details

Key: F

Time Signature: Waltz

Tempo (BPM): 111

Track Length: 3:00

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The White Dove

1 4
In the deep rolling hills of old Virginia
1 5
There’s a place I love so well
1 4
Where I spent many days of my childhood
1 5 1
In a cabin where we loved to dwell
 

1 4
White dove will mourn in sorrow
1 5 1
The willows will hang their heads
4
I’ll live my life in sorrow
1 5 1
Since mother and daddy are dead
 

We were all so happy there together
In our peaceful little mountain home
But the Savior needs angels up in heaven
Now they sing around the great white throne

As the years roll by I often wonder
Will we all be together someday
And each night as I wander through the graveyard
Darkness finds me where I kneel to pray

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