WORDS AND MUSIC TO "ONE DAY AT A TIME" WERE WRITTEN BY MARIJOHN WILKIN & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON-1980
I'M ONLY HUMAN, I'M JUST A MAN.
HELP ME BELIEVE IN WHAT I COULD BE,
AND ALL THAT I AM.
SHOW ME THE STAIRWAY, I HAVE TO CLIMB.
LORD FOR MY SAKE, TEACH ME TO TAKE,
ONE DAY AT A TIME.
ONE DAY AT A TIME, SWEET JESUS,
THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING FROM YOU.
GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO DO EVERY DAY,
WHAT I HAVE TO DO.
YESTERDAY'S GONE, SWEET JESUS,
AND TOMORROW MAY NEVER BE MINE.
LORD, HELP ME TODAY, SHOW ME THE WAY,
ONE DAY AT A TIME.
DO YOU REMEMBER,
WHEN YOU WALKED AMONG MEN?
JESUS, YOU KNOW IF YOUR'E LOOKING BELOW,
IT'S WORSE NOW THAN THEN.
PUSHING AND SHOVING,
CROWDING MY MIND.
SO FOR MY SAKE, TEACH ME TO TAKE,
ONE DAY AT A TIME.
ONE DAY AT A TIME, SWEET JESUS,
THAT'S ALL THAT I'M ASKING FROM YOU.
GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO DO EVERY DAY,
WHAT I HAVE TO DO.
YESTERDAY'S GONE, SWEET JESUS,
AND TOMORROW MAY NEVER BE MINE.
LORD, HELP ME TODAY, SHOW ME THE WAY,
ONE DAY AT A TIME.
LORD, HELP ME TODAY, SHOW ME THE WAY,
ONE DAY AT A TIME
DLS 11-2-99
ONE DAY AT A TIME
Songwriter Marijohn Wilkin died Saturday,
October 28, 2006. She was 86.
Ms. Wilkin learned last year that her 2003 triple-bypass heart operation had failed and that she was not a candidate for another procedure.
She was a founder of the Nashville Songwriters Association. She was dubbed"the den mother of
Music Row."She was inducted into
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.
She is credited with discovering Kris Kristofferson, who released a statement Sunday calling her a"tough, intelligent and funny woman making it in a man's world."
Born Marijohn Melson in Texas, she was the grandchild of a country fiddler and learned to play piano as a child. She moved to Nashville in 1958 and was signed as a songwriter by Cedarwood Publishing company.
She scored her first major hit when she and John D. Loudermilk created"Waterloo"in 1959. Stonewall Jackson's recording topped country and pop charts.
"The Long Black Veil,"composed by Wilkin and Danny Dill in 1959, became an evergreen, with recordings by Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, The Band, The Kingston Trio, Burl Ives and dozens of others.
