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lyrics
Oh, I don’t care if a cardboard box is the place that I call home
My Father’s built some mansions and I claim one for my own.
Just off the street that paved with gold, a block from the pearly gates
In heaven I have a mansion and it’s where my Jesus waits.
Verse 1
Jesus said that He would go prepare a place for me
And with my Lord and Savior is where I want to be.
There are many mansions and my name is on one door
In a place that He called Paradise…like nothing seen before.
And I won’t need to pay the rent, for the rent’s been paid for me
Jesus paid the price at a place called Calvary.
Oh this old world has got me now, but it’s not where I belong
Some day my Lord will call me to my mansion by His throne.
Chorus
Verse 2
Oh is His Name there in your heart, for the rent’s been paid for you?
Paid for all eternity by the One who’s tried and true!
I hope someday I’ll see you there, together we will sing
From our mansions there in heaven we’ll sing praises to the King.
Chorus
Ending
In heaven I have a mansion
In heaven I have a mansion
In heaven I have a mansion
And it’s where my Jesus waits.
credits
released December 31, 2007
Written by Richard P. Ware 2007 All Rights Reserved
This recording by Paramount Studios, Nashville TN