ELEVEN DAYS

Today is a sad day for gospel music. Legendary songwriter Dottie Rambo was killed in a bus accident in Missouri this morning. The legacy she leaves behind includes such great songs as, "We Shall Behold Him," "I Go To The Rock" "He Looked Beyond My Faults And Saw My Needs," "Holy Spirit, Thou Are Welcome" and literally hundreds more.

Oddly enough, I actually started to post the lyrics to one of her songs on here yesterday, but couldn't find the complete lyric so I didn't. I thought it would be appropriate. Here's what I could remember:

I GAVE IT ALL AWAY
Words and Music by Dottie Rambo

You gave me a special song
I thought You wrote for me alone
but when I read the words You gave
I found they were to give away
Unless I sing my song again
then every precious word will end
so take my song and empty me
I need a brand new melody
a song's just not a song, they say
until you give it all away....

I gave it all away
my precious song of yesterday
the words live on, the music stays
because I gave it all away
I gave it all away
the rhymes, the lines, each clever phrase
and if a new song's born today
I'll gladly give it all away.