The Good Lord's Lookin' After Me

("Good News")
'WordS & :Music: ':Mo' ~ctor

Jtrrangement: :Mo ~ctor

Tilis song is dedica ted to John Falvo. Austin, Texas

Arrangement Copyright- ' Mo' Rector- Used by permission

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George's mother gave him a handwritten copy of this poem when he was a young man. He kept it in a small gold frame on the
organ in his home. While visiting him there one Sunday in 1953. he played some simple chords and recited it to me. saying. "write
this song for me some day~. This is it.

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