THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRD
Recorded by Roy Acuff
Words and music by (Reverend) Guy Smith (1937)


INTRO: Play Intro Instrumentally

(G) What a beautiful thought I am (C) thinking

On the (D) pages of God's Holy (G) Word.


VERSE ONE

(G) What a beautiful thought I am (C) thinking

Con-(D) cerning a great speckled (G) bird

Remember her name is re-(C) corded

On the (D) pages of God's Holy (G) Word.


VERSE TWO

(G) With all the other birds are flocking (C)'round her

And (D) she is despised by the(G) squad

But the great speckled bird in the (C) Bible

repre (D) senting the great church of God.


VERSE THREE

(G) Desiring to lower her stan (C) dard

They (D) watch every move that she (G) makes

They long to find fault with her (C) teachings

But real(D) ly she makes  no (G) mistake.


VERSE FOUR
(G) I am glad I have learned of her (C) meekness

I am (D)  proud that my name is on her (G) book

For I want to be one never (C) fearing

The (D) face of my Savior to (G) look.


VERSE FIVE

(G) When He cometh descending from (C)  heaven

On the (D)  cloud that He writes in His (G) Word

I'll be joyfully carried to meet (C)  Him

On the (D) wings of that great speckled (G) bird.





Note.  Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys
           Capitol Records - J-LZC-11  at  1937