Ruth 1
Tune: "Lead Me" (Akers, 1953)


Mother, take me back home with you.
Judah will be my new homeland true.
Moab now holds no place for me.
Where you go, there I'll be.

    When your son was my husband I was pleased
    For a decade your family to be.
    Now I'm all alone in my native land.
    Your tribe will become my band.

Mother, take me back home with you.
Judah will be my new homeland true.
Moab now holds no place for me.
Where you go, there I'll be.

    The Lord surely left us both bereft,
    Now God is all for us that's left.
    We are poor and perhaps our days are few.
    Where you die I will die too.

Mother, take me back home with you.
Judah will be my new homeland true.
Moab now holds no place for me.
Where you go, there I'll be.


                      August/September 2010
		      refrain revised 10/2019