Wings in the morning and license to fly   Straight to the portals of never more die   Never more pain in them old aching bones   Wings in the morning to carry us home      My grandfather lived by the book all his life   On rich bottom land with twelve kids and a wife   He never saw TV, nor rode a jet plane   But he knew that heaven was holding his claim      The salt of the earth, yet with faith in the Lord   They all got together in that one accord   And what could be greater than God's guarantee   That we can have heaven for eternity?      Rocks in the road and we stumble and fall   Lights getting low, so we don't see at all   But I promise you, on that getting up day   Wings in the morning, we'll fly away