How Great Thou Art

How Great Thou Art

Theme for a song. In memory of pappy

Written by Nathan Funk

We were walking through the fields of Oklahoma
Counting cattle and loading alfalfa

Shooting frogs and fishing in the river
Playing in the creek and splashing in the summer breeze
To the song of the katydid and cricket
We were opening our hearts to the bigger song.

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art

The smell of diesel and an old John Deere
The sound of tall footsteps approaching near
To hear his stories was to travel to a better time
A time when the pace was slow and he was faster

The wheat is cut and plowing time is here
The explosion of color as the sun to the ground draws near
As the wheels of life keep turning, from angels I hear
The song that takes me to a time and place that we are near.