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Father Will You Meet Me in Heaven

from Longing for Heaven by Jeni & Billy

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    Duet partners Jeni & Billy have brought impressive measures of inspiration, artistry, and austerity to this minimalist collection of old-time ballads, heartsongs, and spirituals. Hankins is the soulful wellspring of this collaboration. Born and raised in Virginia coal country, she brings a writer’s and singer’s finely nuanced ear to the cadences and imagery of her native Appalachia. – Bluegrass Unlimited, USA

    Comes in a four panel eco-friendly wallet, designed by Jeni, featuring family photos. A 20-page booklet includes all lyrics and credits.

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lyrics

Father Will You Meet Me in Heaven

for Jack Cash, Johnny’s brother

Father will you meet me in Heaven?
For me the die has been cast.
Tell me you’ll meet me, O father,
and walk with Jesus at last.

A blade is a terrible master.
For brother it meant his life.
As he stretched across the table,
he did not mind the knife.

For brother death was a-calling.
I thought he’d breathed his last,
but as our father wept o’er him,
I heard my brother ask . . .

Father will you meet me in Heaven?
For me the die has been cast.
Tell me you’ll meet me, O father,
and walk with Jesus at last.

Pride is a terrible master
and father was often it’s slave.
He had no love for Jesus
and said he’d ne’er be saved.

But he knelt as brother lay dying
and he felt as ne’er before.
He heard the words of dear brother
and gave his heart to the Lord.

Father will you meet me in Heaven?
For me the die has been cast.
Tell me you’ll meet me, O father,
and walk with Jesus at last.

© 2008 Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, BMI

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from Longing for Heaven, released January 1, 2010

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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