Tear Stained Altar A

I remember mom and dad, how they always used to go
with the friends and loved ones, that I used to know.
They would gather round the altar on an early Sabbath day
And lift their voices up in prayer till Jesus had His way.

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On the old tear stained altar where friends knelt to pray.
That old tear stained altar where sins were washed away.
In that old country church where I was but a lad.
That's where I learned the good way from the bad.

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It was just a country church, and their numbers there were few.
They were old-fashioned people, but their hearts were true.
They didn't have the style, like churches of today.
But Heaven really smiled on them when they knelt to pray.