Come to my house this morning

Let me wake to see you softly smile

Hold me closely without warning

Easing back for safe-keeping all the while

And the gentler we think

The gentler it goes

And I guess that it’s so

That it’s always going to

Be that way

Well momma told us don’t be lonesome

You have grown some and you’re looking fine

Daddy said that I’d be on my own sometime

But he don’t mind what he left behind

And the gentler we think

The gentler it goes

And I guess that it’s so

That it’s always going to

Be that way

Oh lord won’t you come in my life

Won’t you come in my life this time around

Oh lord won’t you come in my life

Won’t you come in my life around

And the gentler we think

The gentler it goes

And I guess that it’s so

That it’s always going to

Be that way

And the gentler we think

The gentler it goes

And I guess that it’s so

That it’s always going to

Be that way

And the gentler we think

The gentler it goes

And I guess that it’s so

That it’s always going to

Be that way