“Lord, Lead Me On” is a bluegrass gospel song recorded by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the late 1950s. The song is credited to the writer Kenneth T.W. Tuttle, and it appeared among the sacred numbers on one of Monroe’s gospel collections.
The lyric is a plain prayer for guidance — a believer asking the Lord to lead him onward through the trials and uncertainties of life toward a heavenly home. That kind of direct, trusting petition was central to the bluegrass gospel tradition.
Sacred singing was woven through Bill Monroe’s music from his earliest days, rooted in the church traditions of his Kentucky childhood, and he recorded a great many gospel songs over his career. “Lord, Lead Me On” stands among them as a quiet, devotional example of the form he helped shape.
