I'M GOIN? TO STILL BE THANKFUL

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I'M GOIN’ TO STILL BE THANKFUL - L. A. Tubbs
I've been countin’ up my blessin’s an’ summin’ up my woes.
But I don't have the conclusion some would naturally suppose.
Why, I quit a-countin’ troubles ’fore I had a half a score.
While the more I count my blessin’s I keep findin’ more and more.
There’s been things that wan’t exactly as I thought they oughta be;
An’ I've often growled at Providence fer not a-pettin’ me!
But I hadn't stopped to reckon what the other side had been—
How much o’ good an’ blessin’ had been thickly crowded in.
Fer there’s been a rift o’ sunshine after every shower o’ tears,
An’ I found a load o’ laughter scattered all along the years.
If the thorns have pricked me sometimes, I've good reason to suppose
Love has hid ’em often from me ’neath the rapture o’ the rose!
So I'm goin’ to still be thankful fer the sunshine an’ the rain,
Fer the joy that’s made me happy, fer the purgin’ done by pain.
Fer the love o’ little children, fer the friends that have been true,
Fer the guidin’ hand that’s led me every threatenin’ danger through!