{"id":960,"date":"2016-04-11T04:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2017-05-26T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:47:19","slug":"gospel-songs-by-rex-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Gospel songs by Rex Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, a friend had a record of Rex Allen singing gospel songs. One of the songs I heard \u00a0was on my mind the other day, but I can&#8217;t find it on the YouTube. Anyway, here are some other songs I found, and I hope they are a blessing to you.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tGAp7yypUfw&amp;nohtml5=False\" target=\"_blank\">Take me Lord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember hearing this song on the record.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1vJhy4AQMlA&amp;nohtml5=False\" target=\"_blank\">Just a closer walk with Thee &#8211; Gospel song by Rex Allen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_MkCXkpBAOg\" target=\"_blank\">Crying in the chapel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am presuming that this is where Elvis got this song from, and made it into a hit.<\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xR4y0j5uLxM\" target=\"_blank\">Wasted years \u2013 with lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many years we sang this chorus at church meetings. A very important message.<\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XAK3waQrdfM\" target=\"_blank\">Daddy sang bass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first heard this one sung by Johnny Cash. Written by Carl Perkins. In the song it mentions how his brother had died. From what I have read, Carl was on the way to New York to promote his song &#8216;Blue suede shoes&#8217; when they had a car accident and his brother got killed.<\/p>\n<p>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OZHtTWmVx-s\" target=\"_blank\">I won\u2019t need my six gun in heaven<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cowboy side of him.<\/p>\n<p>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0SJkQ6f1xK8\" target=\"_blank\">I thank the Lord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is actually a love song, but it is good that he is thanking the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, a friend had a record of Rex Allen singing gospel songs. One of the songs I heard \u00a0was on my mind the other day, but I can&#8217;t find it on the YouTube. Anyway, here are some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/?p=960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zRue-fu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}