The Friend Who Just Stands by

When trouble comes your soul to try

You love the friend who just stands by.

Perhaps there's nothing he can do;

The thing is strictly up to you, 

For there are troubles all your own,

And paths the soul must tread alone;

Times when love can't smooth the road,

Nor friendship lift the heavy load.

 

But just to feel you have a friend,

Who will stand by until the end;

Whose sympathy through all endures,

Whose warm handclasp is always yours,

It helps somehow to pull you through

Although there's nothing he can do;

And so with fervent heart we cry,

"God bless the friend who just stands by."