My closest friends have moved to heaven   They have left this world below    To live up there with Christ forever    There they never shall grow old       Family chain has now been broken   The missing links are safe I know   I pray we’ll all be joined together   In that city built of gold      Daddy was the first to leave us   And it grieved my mother so   Right away she had to join him    They are happy there I know       My days on earth will soon be ending   For I can see it in Daddy’s eyes.    The broken links will come together   Reuniting one by one       Family chain has now been broken    The missing links are safe I know   I pray we’ll all be joined together   In that city built of gold   In that city built of gold