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Clear Title to a Mansion/I Have A Clear Title to a Mansion
Traditional Southern Gospel;
ARTIST: Wade Mainer and the Mainer's Mountaineers
SHEET MUSIC:
YouTube: Happy Goodmans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJhfmnLHVo
DATE: 1900s
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
RECORDING INFO: Clear Title to a Mansion
Mainer, Wade; and Mainer's Mountaineers. Wade Mainer and the Mainer's Mountaineers, Old Homestead 90002, Cas (1971), trk# B.07
Bill & Gloria Gaither. A Tribute To Howard & Vestal Goodman (Sylvia Trace)
Happy Goodmans
Marksmen Quartet. Clear Title To A Mansion
OTHER NAMES: "I Have A Clear Title to a Mansion "
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SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: "Clear Title to a Mansion" is a traditional southern gospel hymn with no known verified author. Here's one quote about the author from Namethathymn.com:
"There is a man in my town (Heber Springs Arkansas) who claims he wrote this song, and it was stolen from him. From what I know, he has tried to regain the legal rights to it with no sucess. He says he has an early recording of it that he sent home while he was in World War II which should be sufficient proof."
Other claims for authorship have been made by Rube Perkins and Sylvia Trace (Gathers). Anyone can copyright an existing song. Here are four verses from different sources:
CLEAR TITLE TO A MANSION- Wade Mainer and the Mainer's Mountaineers
I've heard people talk about heaven
And descibe its beauty so rare
So one day I purchased a title
to a mansion in that land so fair
It was given to me without money
But it cost my dear Savior His life
He died on the cross just to save me
For me he paid a great price
CHORUS: Now, I hold a clear title to mansion
That Jesus has gone to prepare
Fire cannot touch it
Floods cannot harm it
And it never will need a repair
The termites can't mar its foundation
For upon the Rock of Ages it stands
I feel that it's almost completed
And ready for me to move in
My deed was both signed and recorded
The day Jesus saved me from sin
My name was engraved in gold letters
In the Lamb's Book of Life safe within
I'm an heir to a mansion in glory
When from this vain world here I roam
I'm waiting for Jesus to call me
I'll lay down my cross and go home
So often I think of that city
Beyond the dark river of death.
Someday to that land I'll be going
When from here I've drawn my last breath.
They tell me that in that fair city,
No sad disappointments will come.
No sorrow, no sickness, no dying
Will be known in that city above.
We've traveled through the valley together
We've gone through the heat and the cold
We've watched as our friends went before us
To join in that heavenly fold
Someday we will meet them in glory
And talk with the prophets of old
The treasures that are waiting in heaven
Down here have never been told
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