Honor Your Father and Mother
Words and music: Ross Jutsum,
Text based on Exodus 20:12 and other scriptures
1. Honor your father and mother
That your days may be long on the land
Bountiful blessings forever,
The Eternal your God did command.
The first commandment with promise,
And by this we should all understand.
So honor your father and mother
That your days may be long on the land.
2. Christ, son of Joseph and Mary,
Whose father and mother we know,
Left us a perfect example
To follow wherever we go.
He taught us to keep the commandments,
His great law, which forever will stand.
So honor your father and mother
That your days may be long on the land.
3. Heav'nly Jerus'lem forever,
It is free and the mother of all.
How much our heavenly Father
Gives gifts to the children He calls.
He promises life ever lasting,
And to serve at our Master's right hand;
So honor your father and mother
That your days may be long on the land.
Words and music copyright ©1993 by Ross Jutsum
Used by permission