What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? Lyrics

I'm thinking today of some friends that I know
Who lived and suffered in this world below.
They're gone off to heaven, but I want to know
What are they doing there now?
Oh, what are they doing in heaven today,
Where sin and sorrow are all gone away?
Peace abounds like a river, they say.
Oh, what are they doing there now?

There's some whose minds were burdened with care.
They paid for their moment with fighting and tears,
But they clung to the cross in trembling and fear.
Oh, what are they doing there now?

Oh, what are they doing in heaven today,
Where sin and sorrow are all gone away?
Peace abounds like a river, they say.
Oh, what are they doing there now?
And there's some whose bodies were full of disease.
Physicians and doctors couldn't give them much ease.
They suffered 'til death brought a final release.
Oh, what are they doing there now?

Oh, what are they doing in heaven today,
Where sin and sorrow are all gone away?
Peace abounds like a river, they say.
Oh, what are they doing there now?
There's some who were poor and often despised.
They looked up to heaven with tear-blinded eyes
While others were heedless and deaf to their cries.
Oh, what are they doing there now?

Oh, what are they doing in heaven today,
Where sin and sorrow are all gone away?
Peace abounds like a river, they say.
Oh, what are they doing there now?