Verse 

   E                                    A         E 
There's a place dear to me where I'm longin' to be 
                                    B7 
With my friends at the old country church 
           E                       A          E 
There with mother we went, and our Sundays we spent 
         E              B7          E 
With our friends at the old country church 


[Refrão]

Precious years of memory's  
         B7               E 
Oh what joy they bring to me 
                        A 
How I long once more to be 
         E             B7          E 
With my friends at the old country church 

Verse 
                                A               E 
As a small country boy, how my heart beat with joy 
                              B7 
As I knelt in the old country church 
E                           A          E 
And the savior above in his wonderful love 
                     B7           E 
Saved my soul at the old country church 


[Refrão]
Precious years of memory's  
         B7               E 
Oh what joy they bring to me 
                        A 
How I long once more to be 
         E             B7          E 
With my friends at the old country church 


Verse 
                               A             E 
How I wish that today all the people would pray 
                                B7 
As we prayed in the old country church 
           E                    A           E 
If they'd only confess, Jesus surely would bless 
                 B7           E 
As we did in the old country church
 


[Refrão]
Precious years of memory's  
         B7               E 
Oh what joy they bring to me 
                        A 
How I long once more to be 
         E             B7          E 
With my friends at the old country church 


Verse 
                                A            E 
Oh my thoughts make weak for so many now sleep 
                                   B7 
In that grave near the old country church 
      E                            A            E 
May I rest with my friends in that grave in the end 
                      B7           E 
In the grave near the old country church 


[Refrão]
Precious years of memory's  
         B7               E 
Oh what joy they bring to me 
                        A 
How I long once more to be 
         E             B7              E 
With my friends at the old country church