Will The Circle Be Unbroken

This is the original version of the famous Grand Ole Opre closing song. It was written in 1907. The Carter family recorded a variation of this song called Can The Circle Be Unbroken in 1935, which became a favorite at the Grand Ole Opre.


   5  -5    6    6    7 -8   8  8
There are loved ones in the glo-ry,

  8    -8    7   -8   7 -6   6
Whose dear forms you of-ten miss:

  5  -5    6     6    7   -8  8  8
When you close your earth-ly sto-ry,

 7    7   -8   -8  -8   8    -8
Will you join them in their bliss?

chorus

 7   -8   8   9   8 -8  7   8
Will the cir-cle be un-bro-ken

 7 -7 -6-8   7 -6  6
By and b-y, by and by?

 6 6 -6   7    7 -8   8   8
In a bet-ter home a-wait-ing

 8 -9   9    8 -8   7
In the sky, in the sky?

verse 2

In the joyour days of childhood,
Oft they told of wondrous love,
Pointed to the dying Savior
Now they dwell with Him above.

verse 3

You can picture happy gath'rings
Round the fireside long ago.
And you think of tearful partings,
When they left you here below:

verse 4

One by one heir seats were emptied,
One by one they went away;
Here the circle has been broken
Will it be complete one day?