I used to sing a sad song

Filled with gray skies and rain

I used to sing of no future

Sad days with only pain

Now as I look back upon them

Seems tome that I find

There were days in the valley

Now I've left them all behind

And now it's sunshine and roses

Only a thorn now and then

Cool streams warm breezes

Since Jesus took my hand

Green meadows and laughter

Hope within a crumbling time

I'm not sunshine and roses

Only a thorn now and then

I never miss the old ways

Yet think back from time to time

To those days of no purpose

When my life had little rhyme

Though the waters drunk be bitter

They much sweeter make the taste

Of one drop of god's blessing blessing

Given by his grace

And now it's sunshine and roses

Only a thorn now and then

Cool streams warm breezes

Since Jesus took my hand

Green meadows and laughter

Hope within a crumbling time

And now it's sunshine and roses

Only a thorn now and then

And now it's sunshine and roses