When my hands are tired and my step is slow   Walk beside me and give me the strength to go   Fill my face with Your courage, so defeat won't show   Pick me up when I stumble, so the world won't know      Lead me Father, with the staff of life   Give me the strength for a song   That the words I sing might more strength bring   To help some poor troubled, weary worker along      When my way is light but I still can see   With a strong hand, strike out the blindness in me   Show me work that I should carry on for Thee   Make my way straight and narrow like You wanted to be      Lead me Father, with the staff of life   Give me the strength for a song   That the words I sing might more strength bring   To help some poor troubled, weary worker along